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
- 53.07074, -9.03238
- SMR number
- CL006-045001-
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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 patchy rough grazing and bare rock on a gentle SW-facing slope, overlooked by a second cairn (CL006-045002-) c. 30m to the ESE, and within field system (CL006-042001-) (Jones, Carey and Henniger 2011, 42).
An oval cairn (ext. dims. 13.8m N–S; 7.6m E–W; max. H 0.7m) consisting of partially grassed-over small stones revetted by thin flags on the flat visible from NW–NNE. It is similar in form to the cairn (CL006-044----) c. 200m to the S, which was partially excavated and shown to contain burials from the Chalcolithic and Early bronze Age (Eogan 2002). The S limits are disturbed by a modern machine-built wall of massive boulders beyond which a concrete cattle pen and yard are built in next field beside the road.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 July 2021
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Eogan, J. 2002 Excavations at a cairn in Coolnatullagh townland, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 42, 113-50.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.