Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Ballyvaghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvaghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (Site of) (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.10973, -9.15676
- SMR number
- CL002-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unobtrusively situated in a narrow, shallow valley from which ground rises gently to E and W in reclaimed and extensively cleared pastureland. Indicated with a circle and named ‘Cromlech’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Cromlech (Site of)’ on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Cist (possible)’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) on the basis of Westropp (1901, 280) who recorded that ‘it is said to have been a small cist of four slabs and a cover; it has been removed since 1839’.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.