Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Green Island (Bunratty Lower By.),River Shannon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Green Island (Bunratty Lower By.),River Shannon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68201, -8.80507
- SMR number
- CL062-050----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In estuarine clays on the N bank of the Owenygarney River, extending N from Green Island to Moyhill Marsh. A stone causeway extending N from the island becomes a double line of wooden posts (L c. 270m; lines c. 1.4m apart), visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL062-050----_01.jpg Google Earth historical image
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 June 2020
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.