Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Ballycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09278, -9.14240
- SMR number
- CL005-053002-
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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
On a NW-facing slope, under scrub and on the E side of Ballyvaughan valley. Indicated and named ‘Cromlech’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Cromlech (site of)’ on the 1916 ed. It was destroyed before Westropp’s time (1901, 282) but was recorded in the O.S. Memoranda (1840) as ‘composed of large flags placed on four pedestals resembling a table of stone. The top 3 feet over the ground’ (DeValera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 92).
Inspection in 1998 failed to locate any surface trace of the monument. While the OS (1840) description is not sufficient to differentiate the class of this monument, it was almost certainly a megalith and probably either a portal or wedge tomb. The site of an enclosure (CL005-053001-) is located c. 10m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 June 2022
References
OS Memorandums - A heterogeneous collection of letters and queries relating chiefly to orthography arranged in county volumes, dating mostly from 1825-43, emanating principally from Lieutenant T. Larcom, officer in charge at the Ordnance Survey Office, and replies made by the Royal Engineer officers in the field or their staff, including George Petrie and John O'Donovan. Manuscripts in National Archives of Ireland.
de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1961 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 1: County Clare. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.