Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lismacteige, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacteige
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10721, -9.18799
- SMR number
- CL005-206002-
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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 limestone pavement on the S-facing upper terraces of Cappanawalla hill. One of two cairns placed along the line of the enclosing bank of hillfort (CL002-076001-). This cairn (c. 7.5m N-S; c. 7m E-W) is placed slightly to the S of the line of the hillfort bank. Detailed topographic survey of the monument by Grant (2008, 79) determined that the bank material stops short of the cairn, but an obvious limestone pedestal continues along the line of the banks, implying that the bank was originally continuous and that its material was reused to construct the cairn at a later date, interrupting the line of the bank but leaving behind a limestone pedestal. A second cairn (CL002-076002-) is placed along the line of the hillfort bank c. 350m to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
References
Grant, C. 2008 The role of research in issues of management and conservation: prehistoric landscape of the north central Burren, a case study. In M. Comber and C. Jones (compilers), Burren landscape and settlment. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project, 72-88. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.