Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Scattery Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scattery Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61046, -9.51502
- SMR number
- CL067-024019-
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
Identified in section, in a low cliff face on the SE foreshore of Scattery Island during an assessment in 2001 in advance of conservation works to facilitate visitors to the island. A layer of angular, heat-shattered stone (D 0.12m; stones av. 0.06m x 0.04m) was evident overlying a possible linear trackway extending NW-SE (Wth 3.85m; D 0.3m). The linear extent of the feature is unknown as it extended into the cliff face. The stone may have been obtained from a nearby fulacht fia and reused as metalling over a peat layer in order to solidify the soft ground. (Dunne and Ryan 2001, 10-11) This is a national monument in state care, no. 10.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 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. and Ryan, M. 2001 Archaeological Foreshore Assessment, Scattery Island, Kilrush, Co. Clare. 00E0281. Unpublished excavation report. National Monuments Section, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Sea wallunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.