Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kiltennan North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltennan North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltennan Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01039, -9.19542
- SMR number
- CL009-099001-
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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
In reclaimed pasture at the E end of a ridge named Knockacarn; the land slopes to the SW and there are wide views from E to S to W. Not indicated on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map but a trigonometrical point here is labelled ‘Kiltennan Fort’ (see CL009-099002-). Hachured and labelled ‘Carn’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This grass-covered round-topped subcircular cairn (18.2m E-W; 15.9m N-S; H 2.1-2.5m) is composed of earth and stone. There is a slight hollow just to the SE of the summit. It is regular in outline but is steeper near the base (H 0.7-1m) from N to E to S, where it may have been cut back. At N the base has quite a straight edge (L 7.5m) running E-W. Two raths (CL009-099002- and CL009-099003-) lie c. 12m to the E and c. 80m to the ENE respectively.
The following image has been uploaded: CL009-099001- View from E
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.