Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07119, -9.04246
- SMR number
- CL006-042020-
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
In a fertile valley at the foot of Gortaclare Mountain and within an extensive field system (CL006-042001-). Described by Carey (2008, 55-6) as a trapezoidal cairn (max. L 17m) that has been severely robbed out. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and OSi MapGenie (2013-2018).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
References
Carey, O. 2008 Coolnatullagh – A final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age secular and ritual landscape in the eastern Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.