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Cairn - unclassified

Faunarooska (Rathborney ED),Poulacapple, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Faunarooska, Poulacapple, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Faunarooska (Rathborney ED),Poulacapple
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.08515, -9.21651
SMR number
CL005-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated on the boundary between Poulacapple and Faunrooska townlands, in rough pasture near the N edge of a N-S ridge on the E side of the Caher valley, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as an earthwork in the RMP (1996). A large cairn (20m E-W; 19m N-S; H 2.2-2.6m). Some upright stones (max. H 0.5m) to the E suggest the site may have served as a burial ground for children. A cashel (CL005-015002-) and hut site (CL005-015004-) are located c. 90m to the S.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 13 January 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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