Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 53.09081, -8.99147
- SMR number
- CL006-248----
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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 S end of a sheltered, shallow grassy depression (c. 30m across) which is surrounded by a raised rim of rock outcrop at S, W and N and is open at E to a flat expanse of karstic pavement. It is overlooked to W by the steep cliffs of Eagle’s Rock which form the E side of Slieve Carran ridge/Gortaclare Mountain and is within the Keelhilla/Slievecarran Nature Reserve (Burren National Park). A low, crescent-shaped mound (10m NE−SW; 6m NW−SE; H 0.65m at SW, 0.75m at SW) enclosing a damp central hollow (2.2m NW−SE; 1.7m NE−SW; D 0.5m) which opens to NW where the ground is wet and soggy in parts. The mound is composed of a dense concentration limestone fragments in dark grey/black soil.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL006-248----_01.jpg Overall view from S
CL006-248----_02.jpg view from S
CL006-248----_03.jpg View from N
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.