Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Iskancullin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iskancullin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02024, -9.14718
- SMR number
- CL009-213001-
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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 level ground on a plateau of karst limestone in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). This circular stone burial cairn (4.3m N-S; 4.15m E-W; max. H 0.6-0.8m) is defined by a kerb of drystone walling (H 0.6-0.8m) that can be traced almost all around. Loose stones are banked (Wth 0.5-1.7m; H 0.2-0.5m) against the outer face of the kerb. A cist (CL009-213002-) is centrally placed within the cairn. Another burial cairn (CL009-066001-) lies c. 76m to the WSW and a wedge tomb (CL009-067----) lies c. 204m to the SSW.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-213001-_01.jpg Cairn from SW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.