County: Clare Site name: SCATTERY ISLAND
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL067-024 Licence number: 01E0662
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 497098m, N 652303m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.612222, -9.519444
Works by the National Monuments Service to improve visitor facilities on Scattery Island included burying a gas pipe and electric cable between 19th-century buildings. The trenching was monitored in late March/early April 2004. For part of its length the service trench only cut into a deep cultivation soil. Elsewhere the trench grazed likely medieval layers, comprising shingle surfaces, ash, clay flooring (some scorched) and robust stone surfacing. The heavy stone surface is probably part of a road on to a shingle spit (with tidal mill), the clay floors part of the high/late medieval settlement close to the island landing. No indication was found for a bawn wall associated with the surviving tower-house, less than 7m from the trench.
Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
