Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Lisgoogan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgoogan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06181, -9.15374
- SMR number
- CL005-211001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 limestone pavement on a SE-facing slope in elevated pasture within an extensive field system (CL005-227004-). A low circular cairn (diam. c. 10m) composed of large flags set upright or sloping (c. 30-40 degrees). The cairn incorporates one definite cist (CL005-211002-) in the centre of the cairn and two possible cists (CL005-211003- and CL005-211004-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.