Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Clonmoney South,river Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmoney South,river Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68902, -8.84589
- SMR number
- CL061-016----
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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
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Clonmoney townland. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 304) as a ‘large V-shaped stone wall or causeway, c. 370m long, buried under silts between Inishcronan Point and Saint’s Island. The feature is depicted on the OS 6” second edition map Clare No. 61 (it is not marked on first edition) and Admiralty charts of the Shannon estuary (No. 1540). Function unknown; may be causeway to island, failed mudflat reclamation feature, fishtrap or tidal watermill. Observed from saltmarsh after completion of survey, March 1999.' This feature is of unknown date. (O'Sullivan 2001, 304, Inishcronan rocks 1)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.