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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
53.00928, -9.16747
SMR number
CL009-059060-

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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 level ground in an area of grassed-over karst limestone, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-); there is a shallow N-S ravine c. 40m to the W. Hachured and labelled ‘Carn’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This large subcircular cairn (base 17.8m N-S; 16m E-W; top 4.4m E-W; 3m N-S; H. 2.2-2.4m) is quite flat topped. Intermittent kerbstones are visible, particularly from SW to NW. On the top of it, moss-covered stones may have been added more recently. Broad low grass-covered ridges extending from it at NW (L 5m) and ESE (L 10m) appear to be old field boundaries. Another cairn (CL009-059061-) lies c. 62m to the NE. Hut sites (CL009-059118- and CL009-059119-) lie c. 10m to the N and c. 13m to the NNE respectively.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059060-_01 View from ESE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 4 April 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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