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Cairn - ring-cairn

Clab, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - ring-cairn, Clab, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clab
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06679, -9.06397
SMR number
CL006-252----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In upland pasture W of the Glen of Clab and within an extensive field system (CL006-042001-). Noted by Richard Crimmins, 2024. A circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 12.7m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall (Wth 3-3.2m; H 0.75m). An internal oval cairn (3.6m N-S; 4.2m E-W; H 0.4m) has large limestone slabs that appear to have collapsed inwards. A slab wall aligned ENE-WSW abuts the site at NW.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney with information from Richard Crimmins

 

Date of upload: 11 November 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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