Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00675, -9.16813
- SMR number
- CL009-059059-
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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
Prominently located on a gentle S-facing grassed-over karst limestone slope in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured and labelled ‘Carn’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This small quite flat-topped cairn (diam. of base 7.2m E-W; 5.9m N-S; diam. of top 4.9m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H. 0.7-0.9m) is composed of stones and slabs, some standing or leaning. One upright slab (L 1m; H 0.4m; T 0.2m), oriented NW-SE, is sticking out of the top of it. Smaller stones lie against the SW face of this slab, creating a cavity, which Westropp (1915, 257) recorded as ‘the remains of small slab cist’ (CL009-124----) A cashel (CL009-059056-) lies c. 55m to the WNW.
The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059059-_01.jpg View from N
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 4 April 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.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.