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Cairn - unclassified

Cappaghkennedy, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Cappaghkennedy, 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
Cappaghkennedy
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02802, -9.03189
SMR number
CL010-029----

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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 but prominent rise in semi-karst, rough pasture, with wide views W-N-NNE, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This subcircular cairn (6m E-W; 5.7m N-S; H 0.6-0.8m) is partly moss- and grass-covered and a whitethorn grows on top. There is a scatter of loose stone on the SSE side. An enclosure (CL010-244----) lies c. 68m to the NW; a second cairn (CL010-030----) stands c. 110m to the NE, and a third (CL010-031----) c. 165m to the E. There is a hut site (CL010-247----) c. 148m to the NE, and a wedge tomb (CL010-028----) c. 193m to the WSW.

Compiled by Conn Herriott and Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 8 February 2023

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

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