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Cairn - unclassified

Poulnaskagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Poulnaskagh, 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
Poulnaskagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Carn (1916)
Coordinates
53.04532, -9.16744
SMR number
CL009-020002-

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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

On a rise in a S-facing slope at the edge of a plateau, overlooking the W end of the Kilcorney Valley, in an area of rough pasture and hazel cover, and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). Labelled ‘Carn’ on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. An oval cairn (diams. 11.8m E–W; 9m N–S; H 0.4–1.3m), the N edge of which is indistinct. There are two quarry holes adjacent to the cairn; one to the W (dims. 3.4m N–S; 2.4m E–W) and a second to the E (diam. c. 2m).

 

As well as a wedge tomb (CL009-020001-) c. 50 to N, there are two cairns nearby: one (CL009-145003-) lies c. 160m to ENE and another (CL009-145----) c. 160m to NE. These is a pronounced concentration of cairns in the area, as noted by Westropp (1899, 370) and Grant (2010, 46).

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

 

Date of upload: 30-9-2025

References

Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-48.

Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 9, 367-384.

Nearby in the register

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

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