Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pier/Jetty
Portdrine,river Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portdrine,river Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67729, -8.73960
- SMR number
- CL062-047----
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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 the townland of Portdrine. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a possibly medieval ‘stone-built slipway or jetty running down foreshore from rock outcrop across foreshore to channel, oriented NW-SE, 32m long, 0.5-1m high, 3m wide. Located c. 30m W of creek which flows out to the S of Portdrine. Built of regular limestone slabs laid as a double kerb with a rubble infill, possible robbed out for construction of later sea wall. March 1999.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 208-9, 305, O’Brien’s Point 4)
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.