Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Teeskagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teeskagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01461, -9.05706
- SMR number
- CL010-064068-
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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
In a slight hollow on the NW side of a ridge in rough pasture and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Reported by Paul Walsh and Vincent Steadman. This poorly preserved wedge tomb appears to be orientated NE-SW, and comprises a large sidestone (L 2.95m; H 0.8m; T 0.12m) on the SE which is incorporated into a later drystone field wall running NE-SW; an endstone (L 1.3m; H 0.2m; T 0.07m) at NE (which leans to the NE), and two endstones set side by side at SW (NW endstone L 0.72m; H 0.25m; T 0.05m; SE endstone L 1.05m; H 0.4m; T 0.07m).
See attached image: CL010-064068-_01.JPG Monument viewed from SE showing SE sidestone incorporated into later field wall.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.