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Barrow - ring-barrow

Cahermakerrila, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Cahermakerrila, 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
Cahermakerrila
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04470, -9.22638
SMR number
CL009-008----

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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

At the top of a low NE–SW ridge overlooking the Burren plateau, within the NE section of a forest plantation, though the monument itself and the area immediately surrounding it have not been planted. Slieve Elva is visible to the NW. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular ring-barrow (max. est. dims. 41.7m N–S, 38.7m E–W) is defined by slightly domed central area (21.6m N–S; 19.9m E–W; H 0.6-0.8m) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (av. Wth 2.5–3.7m; D 0.3–0.4m) and an outer bank (base Wth 3–4.5m; Wth at top 1.5–2m; int. H 0.3–0.4m; ext. H 0.2–0.5m). Rushes are growing in the fosse, which widens to 5m at S and narrows to 1.5m at N. The outer bank is best preserved from E to W but is hardly visible from NNW to E. Gaps at SE (Wth 6.5m) and NW (Wth 7.5m) do not appear to be original.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 15 October 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

Nearby in the register

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

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