Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lisket, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisket
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99705, -9.17795
- SMR number
- CL009-059029-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
At the W end of a broad E-W hill in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-),
with land falling away S-N and wide views all around (less to E). Hachured and named ‘Carn’ on the
1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1901, 289) as
a conspicuous and fairly perfect cairn of earth and stones. This circular cairn (10.1m E-W; 10m N-S; H
1.4-1.6m) has quite a flat top (diam. 3-4m), near which some large stones (though not kerbstones)
protrude through the sod. Other cashels lie c. 136m to the S (CL009-059030-) and c. 152m to the
ENE (CL009-059031-).
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-059029-_01.jpg View from ENE
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 7 February 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.