Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Noughaval (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.