Road - road/trackway, Anneville, Co. Clare
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Roads & Tracks
In the townland of Anneville in County Clare, a route old enough to be classified as an archaeological monument runs through the landscape, recorded simply as a road or trackway.
The fact that it carries such a designation at all is worth pausing over. Not every old road earns a place on the national monuments record; those that do tend to be routes whose alignment, construction, or age sets them apart from the ordinary infrastructure of more recent centuries, whether they are sunken hollow ways worn down by generations of foot and hoof traffic, or deliberately engineered surfaces laid across boggy or difficult ground.
Beyond its location in Anneville and its classification as a road or trackway, the specific details of this particular monument, its age, its extent, how it was constructed, and what purpose it originally served, are not yet in the public domain. It remains one of many thousands of sites across Ireland that have been identified and assigned a record but whose fuller story is still waiting to be told.
