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Metalworking site

Derryclare, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Derryclare, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derryclare
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48609, -9.75571
SMR number
GA037-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the NW shore of Derryclare Lake, c. 120m to the NE of the ruins of 'Derryclare Lodge'. A scatter of metal-working debris along the shore suggests the presence of a metal-working site. No structures are visible. It appears to be eroding out of a drowned horizon (pers. comm. M. Gibbons January 2020).

Compiled by Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 13 October 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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