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Megalithic structure

Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Eantybeg North, 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
Eantybeg North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04610, -9.12434
SMR number
CL009-045004-

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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 karst high ground at the E edge of a plateau within a multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-), with land sloping very steeply into a valley to the E, and also dropping (H c. 4.5m) to the S, to a lower promontory of the plateau. This three-sided NNW–SSE-oriented megalithic structure (est. c. 1.8m N–S; 1.5m E–W; max. H 1.1m) is constructed of upright limestone slabs which form its W, N and E sides; the S side is open. The W side comprises two NNW–SSE-oriented slabs (L 1.8m; max. H 0.6 and 1m respectively) set parallel to one another within a gryke (with a smaller upright slab (L 0.7; H 0.5) similarly lodged immediately to the N). About 1m to the E and also oriented roughly N–S lies the structure’s E side, another upright slab (L 1.1m; H 0.7m). The N side is also defined by a single slab (L 1m; H 1.1), which appears to have been moved out of its original position and is oriented ENE–WSW. The megalithic structure was incorporated into a later N–S drystone wall.

An enclosure (CL009-045002-) lies c. 10m to the S, and immediately beyond that lies Lissaniska cashel (CL009-045----), c. 52m to the S of this megalithic structure.

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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