Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
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
- Carn (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01236, -9.17259
- SMR number
- CL009-059043-
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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 plateau, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), and c. 8m outside the SE side of Caherwalsh cashel (CL009-059045-). Named ‘Carn’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1900-02, 426) mentions ‘a carn and hut-sites’ (CL009-059044-) near Caherwalsh. A grass-covered oval cairn (9m N-S; 6.2m E-W; H 0.4-0.6m) with a flat top (diam. c. 2-2.7m). A large stone (L 1.85m; Wth 0.6; T 0.2m; H 0.6m) aligned N-S protrudes from near the W edge of the cairn and may be naturally placed. The cairn may represent field clearance, accumulating around this stone. A small enclosure (CL009-059124-) abutting the external cashel wall overlies and partly obscures the N side of the cairn.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-059043-_01.jpg View of cairn from SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
References
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The cahers of county Clare: their names, features, and bibliography. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series 3, vol. 6, 415-49.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.