Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Poulnaskagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnaskagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04570, -9.16509
- SMR number
- CL009-145003-
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 level ground in rough pasture, with a field wall immediately to the W and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). A small, subcircular, flat-topped cairn (5m E-W; 4.2m N-S; max. H 0.5m) composed of medium/large stones (diam. c. 0.25m). A cairn (CL009-145----) lies c. 32m to the NNW.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.