Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99751, -9.16037
- SMR number
- CL009-190----
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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
Near the top of a S-facing slope, with wide views W-NE, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This grass-covered oval ring-cairn (int. dims. 5.8m N-S; 5.6m E-W; ext. dims. 19m E-W; 13.7m N-S; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) is defined by a bank of stone and earth which is rather uneven, with additional cairn material deposited on the bank exterior at E and W. The interior is flat.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-190----_01.jpg View from SSW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.