Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermackirilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01972, -9.11279
- SMR number
- CL009-084006-
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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 with wide views, especially from S to W, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Indicated and labelled ‘Standing Stone’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed at ‘Standing stone’ in the RMP (1996). This stone row (L 6.5m) comprises three limestone slabs set upright in a gryke and oriented NNE-SSW. The N stone (H 1.15m; Wth 1m; T 0.1m) has a rounded pointed top. Situated 1.7m to its SSW, the central stone (H 1.67m; Wth 1.4m; T 0.15m) is highest towards its N end. The flat-topped S stone (H 0.6m; Wth 1.2m; T 0.1m-0.15m) is 1.2m SSW of the central one. Coffey (1990, 61) suggested that these stones originally formed part of an ancient wall and that most of its stones were removed to build ‘a more modern wall close by’.
The stone row forms part of a concentration of prehistoric monuments in the immediate vicinity that were investigated by Grant (1995, 31-3). The closest monuments in this ‘complex’ include: a wedge tomb (CL009-084007-), an unclassified megalithic tomb (CL009-084008-) and a cist (CL009-084009-), which lie c. 20m to the SE and another standing stone (CL009-084032-), which lies c. 21m to the E. (Westropp 1907, 470)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 April 2022
References
Coffey, T. 1990 Field notes. The Other Clare 14, 61.
Grant, C. 1995. Mapping a Bronze Age Burren landscape. Archaeology Ireland 9, no. 1, 31-3.
Westropp, T.J. 1907 The cists, dolmens, and pillars of the western half of the county of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26C, 447-72.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.