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Cairn - burial cairn

Poulnaskagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - burial cairn, Poulnaskagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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