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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Ballyline (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Ballyline, 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
Ballyline (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99847, -9.10194
SMR number
CL010-089----

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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

On a broad E-W running in rough pasture, with land falling away steeply to the N, and wide views all around except to W. Within a field system (CL009-166001-). Hachured and labelled ‘Carn’ with a possible cist on a Geological Survey of Ireland map. Listed as ‘Cairn’ in the SMR (1992). This megalithic tomb comprises a well-preserved, grass-covered circular cairn (15m N-S; 13-16m E-W; H 1.4-1.7m), the base of which is not clearly defined as it gently blends into the surrounding ground. There is some disturbance to traces of the cairn’s structural elements on the N side, where there is no sod cover and two rough, parallel lines (L 5m; 1.8m apart at N; 1.3m apart at S) are visible running NNE-SSW from the edge toward the centre of the cairn. Several stones are also visible protruding from the cairn along the edges of these lines, most clearly on the W side – including two larger stones (L 1.4m and 0.9m respectively). There is another cairn (CL009-134----) c. 212m to the WSW.

See attached image: CL010-089----_01.JPG Monument viewed from W.

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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