Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
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
- 53.00896, -9.14005
- SMR number
- CL009-105003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight rise on a plateau, in an area of rough pasture, hazel and exposed limestone pavement. This small conical cairn appears to be relatively modern in date. A possible wedge tomb lies c. 12m to the NE and there is an enclosure c. 20m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 7 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 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.