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Cairn - unclassified

Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Keelhilla, 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
Keelhilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09371, -8.98616
SMR number
CL006-137----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

At the NE edge of a karstic terrace on the NE slopes of Slievecarran with panoramic views over the Burren lowlands to the N and Turloughmore Mountain to the E. A small oval cairn (dims. 8m NE–SW; 5.4m W–E; H 0.5–1.15m) of loosely piled stones. The cairn rises to a relatively compact gently domed peak with broadly slumped sides spreading to a low encircling skirt of loose stones, partly sod-covered around the perimeter from N to E.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL006-137----_01.jpg View from upslope to W
CL006-137----_02.jpg View from N
CL006-137----_03.jpg View from SW
CL006-137----_04.jpg View from S

Revised by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of revision: 10 November 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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