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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
53.01244, -9.04313
SMR number
CL010-064032-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 summit of the semi-karst Glasgeivnagh Hill commanding wide views, with land falling steeply to a cliff c. 65m 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-, CL010-064029-, CL010-064030-, CL010-064031-, CL010-064033-, CL010-064065- and CL010-064-088-). This subcircular cairn (9m N-S; 7m E-W; H 1-1.6m) has several kerbstones set along its edge. The cairn incorporates a stone slab on edge in its NE sector, which may be part of a cist. Westropp (1913, 247) noted that this cairn was kerbed, and had been damaged.

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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