Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 53.06187, -9.04901
- SMR number
- CL006-235----
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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 an E-facing slope at the NE extent of the Termon plateau and within a field system (CL006-217----) extending all over the plateau. Described by Keegan (2016, 127) as a mound (c. 2.5m E-W; 3m N-S) at the edge of a modern farm field.
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 Unpublished MA Thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 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.