County: Clare Site name: ENNIS: The Cloister, Ennis Friary
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 94E0045
Author: Neil O'Flanagan
Site type: Religious house - Franciscan friars
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 533664m, N 677439m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.843802, -8.984693
The Cloister Restaurant lies within the Ennis Friary cloistral buildings. The latter is a national monument and part of the restaurant, including the courtyard, is subject to a Preservation Order (No. 2, 1975). The new owner proposed to build an extension to the restaurant over the courtyard. A single trench dug by hand revealed archaeological deposits 0.5m below the surface. The construction of the extension (on shallow raft foundations) was monitored and a small extent of a mortared wall was exposed. This may have formed part of the western cloistral wall (13th century) and it was preserved under the new foundations.
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