Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Ballygirreen,river Fergus, County Clare, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.