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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Teeskagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Teeskagh, 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
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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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

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

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

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