Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99633, -9.10859
- SMR number
- CL009-196002-
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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 the broad W-facing slope of an E-W ridge, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-166001-). This is a low, grass-covered and flat-topped cairn (H 0.3-0.8m; base 7.8m N-S; 7m E-W; top 4.5m E-W; 3.4m N-S). There are enclosures (CL009-196003-; CL009-252----; CL009-196001-) c. 30m to the ESE, c. 48m to the SSE and c. 66m to the ENE respectively.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.