Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Croagh South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croagh South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05513, -9.17704
- SMR number
- CL005-115012-
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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 raised area of rough pasture and hazel scrub, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). A prominent stone cairn (15m E-W; 11m N-S; H 1.8m), slightly conical towards the top. Another cairn lies c. 8m to the NNW (CL005-115011-) and a cashel (CL005-115010-) is located c. 50m to the NNW.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-115012-_01.jpg View of cairn from NNE
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.