Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Ardfintan,Ross (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfintan,Ross (Clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47821, -9.13179
- SMR number
- GA041-047003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Associated with Ross Errilly Friary (GA041-047----). Constructed c. 1572 to provide access to the friary across bogland (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 258). What is visible is a raised causeway (L c. 400m) which approaches the friary from S. It is straddled by a gateway (GA041-047001-). (Cochrane 1901, 335-6; Mooney 1955, 164)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.