Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06030, -9.04754
- SMR number
- CL006-220----
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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 steep E-facing slope in scrub at the NE extent of the Termon plateau overlooking the Glen of Clab and within a field system (CL006-217----) extending all over the plateau. Described by Keegan (2016, 106-8) as a possible cist, partially within dense scrub, comprising E (L 1.35m) and W (1.65m) sidestones and a capstone (L 1.62m; Wth 0.6m) with the height greater at the front. Keegan (ibid.) also noted that it may be a small souterrain.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 December 2021
References
Keegan, D.M. 2016 The Chalcolithic - Early Bronze Age farming community of Termon: a landscape survey. Unpublished MA Thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.