Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Sheshymore, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheshymore
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00018, -9.13838
- SMR number
- CL009-163----
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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 broad hilltop in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Listed as ‘Cemetery cairn’ in the RMP (1996). Identified by Paul Walsh and Tom Coffey (SMR file) as a grass-covered circular cairn (5.5m N-S; 5m E-W; H c. 0.5m) which may have a kerbstone (H 0.2m) at the SW. Two cists (CL009-163002- and CL009-163003-) were visible in the centre of the cairn. Not found on inspection in 1997 but visible on Aerial Premium (2013-2018). An enclosure (CL009-164001-) lies c. 25m to the E and a cashel (CL009-059097-) lies c. 37m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.