Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Islandmagrath,River Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandmagrath,River Fergus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78807, -8.95738
- SMR number
- CL042-149----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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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.
Nearby in the register
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.