Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
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.
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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.