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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Rannagh East, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Rannagh East, 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
Rannagh East
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04822, -9.07496
SMR number
CL010-019----

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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 gentle E-facing slope in improved pasture. Described by Westropp (1907, 461) as fallen. Recorded as CL. 41 by De Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 36) who also supply a plan and photograph. No visible surface trace of the monument was found on field inspection in 1999.

A second wedge tomb (CL006-056----) in Rannagh East stands c. 500m to the NNE and a third wedge tomb (CL006-057----) is located c. 565m to the NE in Termon townland.

See attachment: CL010-019----_01 Extract from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961)

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 14 December 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1907 The cists, dolmens, and pillars of the western half of the county of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26C, 447-72.

Nearby in the register

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

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