Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Slievenaglasha, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievenaglasha
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01215, -9.04530
- SMR number
- CL010-064081-
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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
Situated in the NE centre of a cairn (CL010-064028-). This rectangular stone-filled cist (min. 0.85m WNW-ESE; min. 0.92m NNE-SSW) is defined by limestone slabs set upright on their long edges: longer sidestones at the N (L 0.7m; min. H 0.4m; T 0.05m) and S (L 0.85m; min. H 0.5m; T 0.1m), with a transverse endstone (L 0.77m; H 0.45m) set between them near their E ends. The W endstone is not visible. Crude drystone walling marks a continuation of the N wall of the cist to the WNW. Westropp (1913, 249) considered this cist to have been opened by treasure-hunters.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-064081-_01.jpg View of cist from SE
CL010-064081-_02.jpg Also from SE
CL010-064081-_03.jpg View from W
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
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.