Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymurphy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurphy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02923, -9.18414
- SMR number
- CL009-013016-
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope on the Burren plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-), with a shallow NE–SW ravine c. 75m to the NW. A small grass-covered cairn (6.5m N–S; 5.2m E–W; H 0.5–0.8m) with a quite flat top (diam. c. 2m). No structural stones are visible.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.