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Cairn - burial cairn

Slievenaglasha, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - burial cairn, Slievenaglasha, 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
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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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 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

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

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