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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Carran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Carran, 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
Carran
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00906, -9.13994
SMR number
CL009-105002-

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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 an area of rough pasture, hazel and exposed limestone pavement. Partly covered by a modern cairn, this possible wedge tomb is defined by two roughly parallel lines of upright limestone slabs, oriented broadly E-W and 0.95m apart. There are two slabs on each side. On the N side, the W stone (L 0.75m; H 0.6m; T 0.05m) slightly overlaps the N face of the E slab (L 0.9m; H 1.24m; T 0.1m). On the S side, the W slab (L 1.05m; H 1.1m; T 0.1m) is partly overlapped to the S by the E slab (L 1.1m; H 0.4m; T 0.15m). The loose stones of the overlying cairn are packed between and to the N of the upright slabs. Another cairn (CL009-105003-) lies c. 12m to the SW and there is an enclosure (CL009-105001-) c. 20m to the NW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 1 June 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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