Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Baur South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baur South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04604, -9.16528
- SMR number
- CL009-145----
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
In rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). Identified by Tom Coffey and listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996). This is a low flat-topped cairn (6.2m E-W; 5.2m N-S; H 0.3-0.8m), covered in grass, ferns and rushes. There is a low ridge on the E side. A cairn (CL009-145003-) lies c. 32m to the SSE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-145----_01.jpg View of cairn from NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 21 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.