Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Aughinish (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinish (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16483, -9.08484
- SMR number
- CL003-037----
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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 sited on a very gentle W-facing downslope c. 50m from the W shore of Aughinish island and obscured by a later E–W field wall which now forms part of its S side. Listed as an unlocated ‘Megalithic structure (possible)’ in the SMR (1992) but not listed in the RMP (1996). A small cist-like wedge tomb, open to the W and with an off-kilter rectangular capstone (L 1.85m E–W; Wth 1.5m; T 0.3m) supported by two smaller flagstones to the E (L 1m; H 0.8m; Wth 0.35m) and N (L 1.3m; H 0.7m; Wth 0.8m) and by a later wall along the S. Several small packing-stones are visible at the base of the N sidestone. The top of the E backstone and N sidestone appear dressed in the manner typical of many other Burren wedge tombs. The interior is partially filled with small stones cleared from the surrounding field.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.