Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Scattery Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scattery Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61441, -9.51699
- SMR number
- CL067-024004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as ‘Walled enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A rectangular area (55m E-W; 38m N-S) around the cathedral (067-024008-) and the round tower (CL067-024005-) defined by a stong drystone wall. An assessment was undertaken in 2001 to determine the potential archaeological impacts of visitors to the island. A concentrated spread of disarticulated human remains was noted on the surface alongside the round tower, possibly disturbed by rabbits. The area was fenced off and all human remains removed as it was at severe risk owing to visitor stress focusing on the round tower. (Dunne 2003, 23-4) This is a national monument in state care, no. 10.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 September 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1971).
References
Dunne, L. 2003 Scattery Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 23-4. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.