Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Baur North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baur North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04859, -9.17220
- SMR number
- CL009-019002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 karst plateau in an area of hazel, with land gently sloping to E. A cist (L 1.14m; int. Wth 0.52m; ext. Wth 0.63m; H 0.9m) consisting of two parallel rows of large, flat slab-like stones standing on edge, orientated N–S, 0.52m apart and increasing in height from S to N. The E row (L 1.14m; Wth 0.03–0.08m; H. 0.55m) comprises three stones; the W row (L 0.82m; Wth 0.05–0.06m; H 0.9m) has two. The space between these rows is filled by large loose stones. A wedge tomb (CL009-019----) lies c.24m to the SW.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-019002-_01.jpg View of cist from SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 2 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.