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Road - road/trackway

Ballycasey More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Ballycasey More, 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
Ballycasey More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71676, -8.85503
SMR number
CL051-176001-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A post-medieval roadway excavated in 1998 (Licence no. 98E0517) in advance of land sale for development. An embanked linear ditch (L over 170m), oriented NW-SE, cut into natural with one bank to the W (Wth 4m; H 0.6m). The E side was scarped (Wth 3m; H 0.45m). (Stevens 1998; 2000, 7)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 25 July 2016

References

Stevens, P. 1998 Archaeological Assessment. Ballycasey More, Co. Clare. (Licence no. 98E0517) Unpublished report. National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.

Stevens, P. 2000 Ballycasey More. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 7. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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