Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Pullagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pullagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07776, -9.00436
- SMR number
- CL006-152----
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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 a S-facing slope, overlooking the karst landscape of the Burren NE-W and overlooked by higher ground W-NE. It consists of an oval, sod-covered mound (16m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE), appearing naturally formed for the most part, which has been utilised to site a small cairn. The mound is defined by a scarp (max. H 1.3m; Wth 3.7m) where steepest at ENE. The top of the mound (10m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) is higher to NE where a low profile cairn (3.5m NE-SW; 2.75m NW-SE; max. H 0.35m) is sited comprising small- to medium-sized angular flagstones. A gentle, circular depression (diam. 3m) occupies the SW half of the mound. This is defined by two obvious upright stones (max. H 0.18m) situated at N and SW and another two less obvious stones at SE and WNW. Another cairn (CL035-153----) is located c. 92m to WSW. This may be one of the three 'mounds' listed in the RMP (1996) under the number CL006-085----.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL006-152----_01.jpg From SW. General view of mound.
CL006-152----_02.jpg From NE. General view of mound.
CL006-152----_03.jpg From NW. General view of cairn.
CL006-152----_04.jpg From SW. General view of depression defined by 4 uprights.
CL006-152----_05.jpg From NW. Profile view of mound (1m rod at NE and SW ends on top).
CL006-152----_06.jpg From NW. Landscape view of monument.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.