Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pier/Jetty
Manusmore,River Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manusmore,River Fergus
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78875, -8.94781
- SMR number
- CL042-150----
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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 N bank of the River Fergus adjacent to Manusmore townland. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 296) as a possibly post-medieval ‘stone-built jetty at the saltmarsh edge, oriented NE-SW, 16m long, 2m wide, 50cm high. Located c. 100m NW of Latoon Creek. Built of irregular limestone slabs laid as a double kerb with a rubble infill. May 1995.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 296, Fergus estuary east 6)
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
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.