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Cairn - unclassified

Fanygalvan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Fanygalvan, 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
Fanygalvan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01947, -9.11182
SMR number
CL009-084012-

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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 a plateau in rough pasture, with land sloping immediately to the S, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This well-preserved grass-covered oval cairn (8.2m NW-SE; 7.3m NE-SW; H 1-1.2m) has quite a straight edge (L 3m) at SE, where it may have been cut back. Two stones (L. 0.4m and 0.8m), aligned NE-SE, protruding from the top of it may be related to what appeared to de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 29) to be the remains of a short cist (Wth 1m; L 0.5m) 'set high up in the mound'. A later D-shaped enclosure (int. dims. c. 12m ENE-WSW; c. 11m NNW-SSE) lies c. 5.5m to the N.
The cairn is part of a complex of prehistoric monuments in this area (Grant 1995, 31-3) that also includes two other cairns (CL009-084010- and CL009-084013-) lying c. 47m to the NNW and c. 64m to the NE respectively.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 28 April 2022

References

De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. i, County Clare. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Grant, C. 1995. Mapping a Bronze Age Burren landscape. Archaeology Ireland 9, no. 1, 31-3.

Nearby in the register

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

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