Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02177, -9.14850
- SMR number
- CL009-065----
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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
Listed as 'Ring-barrow possible' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Situated on a level part of the Burren plateau with a higher ridge extending N c. 500m to the W. A subrectangular ring of stone (11.6m N-S x 8.5m E-W; Wth 2.1-2.4m; H 0.2-0.3m) with a similarly shaped cairn (8.4m N-S x 6.7m E-W; H 1.3m) within it. The cairn and ring are grass-covered and much disturbed and there is a large quarry (4.35m E-W x 2.8m N-S; D 0.2-0.6m) in the cairn, aligned E-W. 6 kerbstones, in an almost straight line define the N extent of the cairn and a further 2 kerbstones remain at the S extent. The fosse is possibly just limestone pavement and is largely free of vegetation.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.