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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Baur South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Baur South, 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
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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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 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

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

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