Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
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
- 53.01180, -9.04419
- SMR number
- CL010-064029-
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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
Near the top of the semi-karst Glasgeivnagh Hill commanding panoramic views, with land falling steeply to a cliff c. 60m to the SE. In rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Hachured and labelled ‘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-, CL010-064028-, CL010-064030-, CL010-064031-, CL010-064032-, CL010-064033-, CL010-064065- and CL010-064-088-). This subcircular cairn (11.5m E-W; 9m N-S) is lowest (H 0.4-0.5m) at the N and highest (H 1m) at the E. A dislodged flat limestone slab near the centre is suggestive of a cist, while cavities to the NNE and SSW of the centre may possibly indicate other cists. A later animal pen is built against the SW side of the cairn.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.