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Cairn - unclassified

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Cahermackirilla, 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
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02727, -9.11309
SMR number
CL009-055----

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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 high point covered by hazel wood, at the edge of a shelf overlooking the Poulacarran and Eanty valleys from SW to NE; the land slopes steeply immediately to the NW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This low overgrown subcircular cairn (11.4m NE–SW; 9.4m NW–SE; H 0.2–0.5m) has a relatively flat top (11.4m NE–SW; 8.9m NW–SE) and is fairly straight edged at NE, SE and SW but is scarped at NW. It is constructed of generally quite large stones; no kerbstones are visible. It is surrounded by a berm (Wth 1.8–2.8m), outside of which the townland wall (H 1.2m), between Poulacarran and Cahermackirilla townlands, circumvents it from S and NW. Another drystone wall (max. H 0.8m) avoids it between NE and S.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 3 February 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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