Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eantybeg North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04471, -9.13153
- SMR number
- CL009-147----
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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
At the base of a S-facing slope, in rough pasture with boggy ground to immediately to W, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996), following initial identification by Tom Coffey (SMR file). This grass-covered subcircular cairn (8.8m N-S; 8.2m E-W; H 0.6-0.9m) is built on a slight rise or shelf of rock outcrop (H c. 0.8m) which curves around the edge of the cairn at SE-NW, 1.6-3m away from its base. This shelf has rough edges and may have been deliberately modified to achieve this curvature and margin around the cairn. The top of the cairn has been excavated, resulting in a trench (Wth c. 1m; D 0.3-0.5m) which curves from E to S around an upright stone slab (H 0.6m; L 0.55m; T 0.05-0.1m). The stone is oriented NW-SE and has a rounded profile. Spoil from the excavation trench was dumped on the cairn.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 21 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.