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Cairn - ring-cairn

Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - ring-cairn, Kilcorney, 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
Kilcorney
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03517, -9.16317
SMR number
CL009-021008-

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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

In rough pasture on a plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A subcircular ring-cairn (int. dims. 7.55m N–S; 7.1m E–W) defined by a well-preserved, grass-covered, flat-topped bank (Wth at top 1.25–1.9m; H 0.3–0.5m), which is lined internally and externally with kerbstones (L c. 0.6–0.8; max. H 0.4m; T 0.2m). The kerbstones are generally larger externally between S and W (L 1.5–1.7m). A gap (Wth 2m) at SE is partially filled with field-clearance stones. Within the interior a cairn (dims. 6m N-S; 4.1m E-W; H 0.3-0.5m) is located slightly off-centre at N. Its centre is slightly dipped (diam. 1.5m; D 0.2-0.3m). A drain or gryke is visible outside the bank at N. An unclassified cairn (CL009-021009-) lies c. 55m to the NE. (Grant 2010, 47)

The following images have been uploaded:
CL009-021008- from S.jpg
CL009-021008- S part of ring-cairn from E.jpg

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 11 November 2021

References

Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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