What is recorded here
Thirty-five metres of posts still angle northeast across the Shannon estuary beside Portdrine, catching fish or marking a boundary in medieval water. The alignment narrows toward O’Brien’s Point, suggesting human hands shaped the tide’s path long before modern records.
On the N bank of the Shannon estuary adjacent to the townland of Portdrine. Described by O’Sullivan (2001, 305) as a post-medieval or possibly medieval ‘post alignment, oriented NE-SW, 35m long, appears to converge with the SE end of O’Brien’s Point 1 [CL062-045001-] below LWM. March 1999.' (O'Sullivan 2001, 208-9, 305, O’Brien’s Point 2)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Friary (Site of)Religious house, unclassified · 574 yd
Castle Donnell (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 676 yd
Cratloe Woodscountry house · 679 yd
t. Margarets Church (in ruins)Church · 1001 yd
Enclosure in CratloeEnclosure · 1395 yd
Sailors HaggardMemorial · 1.1 mi
Muckinish PointHeadland · 1.2 mi
St James's WellSpring · 2.0 mi
Grass IslandIslet · 2.7 mi
Maiden RockNamed rock · 3.0 mi
Bunratty Castle and Folk ParkHeritage attraction · 3.1 mi