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Megalithic structure

Noughaval (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, 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
Cromlech (1916)
Coordinates
53.01415, -9.17280
SMR number
CL009-059042-

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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 shelf on a plateau, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated
and named ‘Cromlech’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
Westropp (1897, 118) mentioned ‘an overthrown cromlech 7 feet by 12 feet’, but on a later visit he
found ‘the blocks of the dolmen uprooted and overthrown since 1897’ (Westropp 1915, 255). During
the Megalithic Survey of Ireland, de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 93) concluded that there was
‘insufficient evidence for acceptance as a megalithic tomb.’ There are several moss-covered stones
and slabs (L 1.4-1.6m; Wth c. 1m; T 0.25m) here, generally lying prone and oriented N-S or E-W, with
some stones set upright in grykes. The site of an unclassified cairn (CL009-059040-) lies c. 46m to the WNW and Cahercutteen cashel (CL009-059039-) lies c. 60m to the NNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 9 February 2022

References

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.

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

Nearby in the register

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

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