Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Baur South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baur South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04929, -9.15943
- SMR number
- CL009-026----
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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 plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---), immediately to the W of a N-S running laneway that leads to a farmhouse to the N. Indicated on Robinson’s map (1977). This grass-covered E–W oriented wedge tomb (L 2.2m E–W; int. Wth at W 1.12m narrowing to 1.1m at E) is defined by a single upright stone slab on each side. The internal height of the chamber increases from W (H 0.86m) to E and it is covered neatly by a capstone. This capstone rests on each upright except that at E end (L 1.25m; H 0.56m) which may have been moved as there is a gap (L 0.45m) at N side of this end of the chamber. The W end is incorporated into a N-S running field wall.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 December 2021
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.