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Barrow - ring-barrow

Cahergrillaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Cahergrillaun, 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
Cahergrillaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.03619, -9.12573
SMR number
CL009-044----

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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 slight rise in the centre of Eanty Valley, at the E edge of a wide shallow ravine, with wide views all around. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This well-preserved ring-barrow (26.8m N–S; 26.3m E–W) is defined by a circular flat-topped central mound (H 0.8–1.1m; diam. at base 10.5m N–S; 9.9m E–W; diam. at top 4.9m N–S; 4.8m E–W) surrounded by a well-rounded fosse (Wth of base 2.4–3.4m; ext. D 0.8–1.1m) with a rounded external bank (Wth at base 5.2–5.4m; With at top 0.7–2.5m; ext. H 0.5–0.8). However, at S–WNW the bank has largely eroded into the adjacent ravine.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 25 January 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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