Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Slievenaglasha, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievenaglasha
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carns (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01215, -9.04531
- SMR number
- CL010-064028-
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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 a rise in the generally NW-sloping semi-karst upper slope of Glasgeivnagh Hill, with land c. 80m to the SE falling steeply to a cliff at the edge of this plateau. In rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Hachured and named ‘Carn’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is one of a cluster of 9 cairns along this hilltop (see also CL010-064027-, CL010-064029-, CL010-064030-, CL010-064031-, CL010-064032-, CL010-064033-, CL010-064065- and CL010-064-088-). This partly grass- and moss-covered subcircular cairn (8.2m N-S; 7m E-W; H c. 1-1.4m) is defined by kerbstones (H 0.3-0.4m) which are visible intermittently. There is a cist (CL010-064081-) within the cairn, to the NE of its centre. Just outside the cairn at E-SSE there is a slight natural berm (Wth 1.8-2m), dropping sharply to surrounding ground level. Westropp (1913, 249) considered this cairn to have been opened by treasure-hunters.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-064028-_01.jpg View of cairn from NW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
References
Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.