Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cappaghkennedy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappaghkennedy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.02825, -9.02927
- SMR number
- CL010-031----
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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
At the highest point (OD 782’) in Cappaghkennedy, in rough pasture, with wide views out to the NW and NE and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated and labelled ‘Carn’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This grass-covered circular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H 1.2-1.6m) has a slight hollow (0.4m) at the top which is the likely former location of a trigonometrical station also shown on the OS 6-inch mapping. Large and medium sized flagstones are scattered on S side of the cairn. There is a second cairn (CL010-030----) c. 110m to the NW, and a third (CL010-029----) c. 165m to the W.
Compiled by Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 8 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.