Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Mount, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73272, -9.06906
- SMR number
- CL050-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 just below the brow of a hill on a NE-facing slope overlooking the Shannon Estuary. An area 96m x 15m investigated as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project yielded evidence of three 19th century buildings, a cellar and various associated yards and gardens corresponding with the structures recorded on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. (Taylor 2004, 50-51)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 July 2016
References
Taylor, K. 2004 Mount (BGE 3/28/1). In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 50-51. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.