Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Carran, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.