Road - road/trackway

The National Monuments Service's description

On the W bank of the Upper Fergus estuary adjacent to Islandmagrath townland. Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Jetty, possible’. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 297) as Late Bronze Age ‘post-and-wattle structures running diagonally down foreshore of estuarine clays, oriented WNW-ESE, c. 35m long, c. 2m wide. Two vertical or obliquely set post-and-wattle fences have horizontal wattle panels and brushwood laid between them. A withy tie was found at the WNW end. A rod was radiocarbon-dated to 2540 +/- 20 BP (797-551 cal. BC; GrN-20974). August 1994; last visited November 1995.' Excavated in 2004 by A. O’Sullivan (04E0738). (O'Sullivan 2001, 107-20, 297, Fergus estuary west 1; O’Sullivan 2007, 37-8, no. 161; O'Sullivan 2010, 29-32)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 27 August 2019

References

O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5

O'Sullivan, A., Dillon, M., Sands, R., McDermott, C., Shaw, R., Devlin, G. 2010 The Fergus Estuary and Islands: discovering a maritime historic landscape in Co. Clare. Report to the Heritage Council. University College Dublin, School of Archaeology in association with the Discovery Programme.

O’Sullivan, A. 2007 Islandmagrath/Ballygirreen/Boarland Rock, Fergus estuary. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 37-8. Bray. Wordwell.