Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Dovecote
Bunratty West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunratty West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69614, -8.81653
- SMR number
- CL061-011004-
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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 c. 60m SW of the 17th-century church within the historic town of Bunratty. According to Westropp (1915, 316) ‘beyond the church is the massive buttressed pier of the ancient pigeon house’. In 1917 (opp. p. 14) Westropp indicates and names a pigeon house on his plan of Bunratty. The surviving portion is very ruined and overgrown. It comprises a straight stretch of roughly coursed limestone rubble extending S-N for 2.1m, angling at 45 degrees to E for 1.5m and continuing W-E for 1.17m (max. H 3m). It is not possible to make out definite niches on the interior.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL061-011004-_01.jpg View of remaining portion of dovecote from N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 October 2019.
References
Westropp, T. J. 1917 Notes on the primitive remains (forts and dolmens) in central County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 47, 1-20.
Westropp, T.J. 1915 The earthworks and castle of Bunratty, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, no. 4, 314-28.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.