Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06067, -9.08383
- SMR number
- CL006-052----
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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 rough level karst and patchy grazing. The ground falls gently away to S and W and rises gently to E. A low ridge in next field to N limits the aspect. A poorly preserved wedge tomb on a low grass-covered cairn (ext. dims 6.1m NE–SW; 4.5m NW–SE; max. H 0.4m) which has been robbed out at NW. All that survives of the wedge tomb in situ is one large NE–SW orientated sidestone (L 2.8m; H at SW end 1.3m; H at NE end 0.4m; T 0.16m) supported by two small slabs (L 0.86; H 0.4m; T 0.07m and L 0.8m; H 0.1m; T 0.05m) set perpendicularly on its NW side. The lower NE end of the sidestone is broken and a fragment rests on one of the perpendicular supporting stones. Three slabs (combined length 3.36m) located c. 5m NW may be the remains of another sidestone.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.