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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Rannagh West, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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