Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial 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
- 53.02000, -9.14826
- SMR number
- CL009-066001-
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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 slight rise in a plateau of grass and karst limestone in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). This subcircular burial cairn (6.4m E-W; 6m N-S; max. H 0.3m) is covered in grass. A cist (CL009-066002-) is centrally placed within the cairn.
A cashel (CL009-064001-) lies c. 68m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.