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
- 53.01341, -9.36680
- SMR number
- CL008-071----
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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
On a very low rise in pasture, with slightly higher ground to the NW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This overgrown subcircular ring-barrow (20.5m E-W; 17.5m N-S) is defined by a shallow, flat-based fosse (Wth 2-2.5m) and a round-topped outer bank (Wth 2-2.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.3m). The central mound (diam. 11.5m; H 0.3m) is flat-topped.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 29 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.