Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.