Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sea wall
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
- 52.61278, -9.51314
- SMR number
- CL067-024022-
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
Situated to the E of a ruined 19th-century house on the E foreshore of Scattery Island. A mostly collapsed and eroded sea wall (Wth 0.5-4m) aligned NW-SE and broken completely in places. Although built in several phases, it was originally substantial and its stones differ in size and shape to the beach stones. It respects the steps to the front of the house and is likely to be contemporary. (Dunne and Ryan 2001, 13-14)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 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 Unpublished excavation report.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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.