Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Poulnaskagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnaskagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04693, -9.15709
- SMR number
- CL009-200001-
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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 plateau in rough pasture, with a NNE-SSW ravine c. 50m to the E. Within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). This circular burial cairn (10.4m N-S; 9.5m E-W; max. H c. 1m at SE) is composed of limestone rocks. Just NW of the centre there is a cist (CL009-200002-). A curving line of six non-contiguous kerbstones (av. dims. L c. 0.4m; H 0.25-0.35m) borders the E side of the cist at a distance of 0.85-1.2m. If continued around the W side of the cist, this line of stones would form an oval kerb (est. diam. c. 3.6-4m). In the N part of the cairn there is a line (L 2.1m) of small upright flagstones, perhaps lodged in a gryke.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-200001-_01.jpg View from NNW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.