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Post row - peatland

Ballygirreen,River Fergus, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Post row - peatland, Ballygirreen, River Fergus, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballygirreen,River Fergus
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.77717, -8.94711
SMR number
CL042-152002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

Situated on soft estuarine clays between saltmarsh and Crow Island the E bank of the Fergus estuary adjacent to the townland of Ballygirreen. A line of post-medieval posts in association with a spread of roundwood branches and a horizontal wattle panel. The roundwood and wattle panel were radiocarbon dated to AD 1665-1946 (GrN-20141) and AD 1645-1947 (GrN-20142). (O’Sullivan 2001, 296)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 20 July 2016

References

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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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