Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Derreen East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08290, -9.29478
- SMR number
- CL004-095----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a NW-facing terrace in karst landscape on the NW slopes of Knockaunsmountain with commanding views N-W and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-). A roughly circular, collapsed cairn (ext. dims. c. 8m E-W; c. 7.7m N-S) defined by a raised plinth with a possible opening in the NW and possible kerbs located in the SE. A later stone shelter has been built in the NNE extent of the cairn. A cashel (CL004-017----) is located c. 55m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 13 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.