Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
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
- 53.06387, -9.15671
- SMR number
- CL005-216----
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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 rise in elevated exposed karst with some grass cover and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A collapsed wedge tomb orientated NE-SW comprising a NW and SE sidestone that have both fallen SE with several other broken limestone slabs in close proximity deriving from other elements of the tomb. The wedge tomb has been incorporated into a mound wall that runs NE-SW across the townland.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.