Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballygastell, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygastell
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04119, -9.25102
- SMR number
- CL008-045017-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a summit in gently undulating land 10m W of a townland boundary. A cairn of stones (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. H 1.2m) overgrown with briars and blackthorn. No structural stones are visible. Possibly a clearance cairn.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.