Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
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
- SMR number
- CL067-024026-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). Some architectural fragments were recently returned to Scattery Island having been absent for about 150 years. The first is a 13/14th-century grotesque carved stone head from a window or door. The head (H 26.8m; Wth 24.5m; T 29.5m) has a wrinkled forehead with no hair and deep grooves around the mouth and cheeks. The large mouth is open showing large teeth. The second fragment is the apex of a moulded window or door hood above which is a knightâs head wearing a helmet. The hood bears some dog-tooth ornament. It is unclear which of the churches they came from. A third fragment from a 15/16th-century cloister arcade was returned but may not have come from the island. (Higgins 2014, 77-80)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 September 2014
References
Higgins, J. 2014 Some medieval stone carvings return to Scattery Island, Co. Clare. The Other Clare 38, 77-80.