Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Teergonean, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teergonean
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01460, -9.36820
- SMR number
- CL008-069002-
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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
Near the top of an E-facing slope in pasture, with wide views except to the NW where there is higher ground. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This gorse-covered and truncated ring-barrow (diam. 18.5m NW-SE) is defined SE-NNW by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.5m) and a low, rounded outer bank (Wth 2-3.2m; int. H 0.1-0.25m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m). At E-SE the only enclosing element is a scarp (H 0.2m). The central mound (diam. 15m E-W; H 0.1-0.2m) slopes to the SE, with an undulating surface. The NE third of the enclosing elements and mound are cut by a field boundary running NW-SE. There is no trace of the ring-barrow on the other side of this field bank. Another ring-barrow (CL008-069001-) lies c. 14m to the S.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-069002-_01.jpg Aerial view from SE (ASI photo)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 29 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.