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Cairn - unclassified

Noughaval (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Noughaval, 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
Noughaval (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Carn (1916)
Coordinates
53.01438, -9.17348
SMR number
CL009-059040-

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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 narrow shelf on a plateau, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated and named ‘Carn’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1897, 118) as a ‘small’ cairn but later (Westropp 1915, 255) as ‘entirely removed’. On inspection in 1997 a low cairn (diam. 4m; H 0.5m) was noted but it appeared to be a clearance cairn possibly related to spill from Cahercutteen cashel (CL009-059039-) c. 18m to the N. A hut site (CL009-059038-) lies c. 20m to the SW and a megalithic structure (CL009-059042-) lies c. 46m to the ESE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 9 February 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1897 Prehistoric stone forts of northern Clare, part III. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 27, 116-27.

Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.

Nearby in the register

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

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