Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pier/Jetty
Quay Island,River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quay Island,River Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pier
- Coordinates
- 52.68091, -8.81030
- SMR number
- CL062-043003-
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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)
- 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
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to Quay Island. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval ‘wooden jetty on estuarine clays on E shore of Quay Island, of double row of vertical timbers, oriented N-S (curves in towards island on mid-foreshore), c. 180m long, c. 2m wide, with timbers surviving to heights of 3-4m. Depicted on OS maps and Admiralty charts as pier used for island’s harbour pilots. August 1995.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 245, 305, Quay Island 1)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.