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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Baur South, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Baur South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04756, -9.16024
SMR number
CL009-199----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 plateau in rough pasture, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). This possible wedge tomb comprises two bulky parallel limestone slabs (SE slab L 1.7m; H 0.7m; T 0.3m; NW slab 1.3m; H 0.45m; T 0.2-0.3m), aligned NE-SW. These slabs are 1.4m apart at the SW, and 1.8m apart at the NE, with a partly grass-covered concentration of smaller stones between them, closer to the NE end.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL009-199----_01.jpg View from S
CL009-199----_02.jpg View from W

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 12 July 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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