Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
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
- 52.61461, -9.51446
- SMR number
- CL067-024024-
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
Excavations (Licence no. 01E0662) undertaken in 2001 to assess the impact of providing visitor facilities on Scattery Island revealed widespread remains of clay floors, metalled surfaces and scorching suggesting a large settlement close to the shore in the early or high medieval period (Pollock 2003, 24-5, no. 96). Material seen under the cottages suggests buildings may have strung themselves out along a shingle spit above the shore, as the 19th-century cottages did subsequently (Pollock 2008, 9).
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
Pollock, D. 2008 Archaeological monitoring and investigation during drainage groundworks on Scattery Island, Co. Clare, in June 2008. (Licence 01E0662 Extension). Unpublished excavation report. National Monuments Section, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin.
Pollock, D. 2003 Scattery Island. 01E0662. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 24-5. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.