Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pier/Jetty
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
- 52.61455, -9.51493
- SMR number
- CL067-024025-
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 along the E foreshore of Scattery Island. Excavation (Licence no. 01E0662) in advance of the building of a septic tank revealed a solid platform under an accumulation of midden and stone material used to reclaim land from a large lagoon in the later medieval period. The platform is probably part of a jetty. (Pollock 2008; 2011, 50, no. 138)
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 Unpublished excavation report.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. 2011 Scattery Island. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 50. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.