Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilweelran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilweelran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10019, -9.10604
- SMR number
- CL005-062----
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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 steep rocky E-facing slope overlooking a small fertile valley in which lie a mound (CL006-006001-), a children’s burial ground (CL006-003001-), a ‘holy tree’ (CL006-006002-) and several enclosures (CL006-003002-, CL006-004---- and CL006-007----). Within an extensive field system (CL005-104001-) extending across Ailwee Hill. A roughly circular cairn (15m N-S; 13m E-W; max. H 2.3m at E) comprised of large and smaller stones.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 6 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.