Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Rannagh East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killacassaun (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05519, -9.07849
- SMR number
- CL006-053001-
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
On improved and extensively cleared pasture at the sheltered S foot of a low ridge which rises up to W and N. Indicated and named ‘Killcassaun (Site of)’ on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as ‘Cill an Chasáin’ on Robinson’s map ([1977] 1999). Not visible at ground level. A possible souterrain (CL006-053002-) is located c. 50m SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (reprint 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of North-West Clare. Map Scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.