Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Baur North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baur North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05187, -9.15853
- SMR number
- CL005-192----
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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
In elevated rocky pasture, overlooking Glensleade valley to the E, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-225----). Listed as ‘Cemetery cairn’ in the RMP (1996). A grass-covered cairn (10.9m N-S; 10.2m E-W), highest to the E (H 1.2m) and falling to the S (H 0.3m). There is a slight dip in the summit of the monument (diam. 2.2m; D 0.3m). No structural stone elements are visible. A drystone field wall partially overlies the cairn. A cairn (CL005-191----) with a cist (CL005-191002-) is located c. 90m to the N and an enclosure (CL005-294----) lies c. 35m to the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.