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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Canon Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Canon Island, 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
Canon Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1922)
Coordinates
52.67938, -9.03744
SMR number
CL060-011001-

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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

Westropp (1915, 272) in describing the ecclesiastical enclosure at Templemore (CL017-094001-) says ‘the wall is entirely overgrown and a thick hedge of bramble and hawthorn covers it, like the great, half demolished ring, in which the Abbey of Canons’ Island in the Fergus stands’. He includes a plan of Canon Island abbey (ibid., p. 271) showing the enclosure extant from N to SW. The area around the abbey (CL060-011001-) on Canon Island is very overgrown with near impenetrable vegetation cover. The enclosing feature is visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BGJ036) prior to the growth of vegetation. Part of a wall was identified E of the abbey in 2002, at its base was a bank (max. H 0.7m) but not enough remained to determine if it was curving. An arched gatehouse (CL060-011007-) lies along the line of the possible enclosure at SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 3 July 2019

References

Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.

Nearby in the register

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

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