Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
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
- 52.99430, -9.11497
- SMR number
- CL009-207001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grass-covered limestone pavement which slopes gently to the S, within a large multiperiod field system (CL017-180----). Identified by Carleton Jones. This wedge tomb (2.15m E-W; int. Wth 1.2m at W, narrowing to 0.95m at E; max. H 0.75m) is built of limestone slabs, set upright on their long edges. The N sidestone (L 2.15m) is split into two fragments. The S sidestone (L 1.75m) is unbroken. A 'blocking stone' (L 0.8m; H 0.6m) is set at the W end of the chamber, between the sidestones, and leans to the W. The capstone has fallen into the chamber interior and is broken into three fragments, one of which rests against the S sidestone. The SW annexe of an enclosure (CL009-207002-) lies c. 15m to the E.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-207001-_01.jpg View of tomb from W
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.