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Cairn - unclassified

Creevagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Creevagh, 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
Creevagh (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00841, -9.08271
SMR number
CL010-097001-

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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 pasture with a small area of quarrying immediately to the NW and a modern cairn just to the NNE. Indicated on a Geological Survey of Ireland map. Listed as ‘Earthwork (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). This grass-covered subcircular cairn (diam. 10m; H 0.5-1.1m) has two slight hollows in it: a subcircular one (diam. 1.4m; D 0.5m) on the N side, and a slighter oval hollow on the S side. Protruding up from the centre of the cairn is a stone slab (L 0.7m; H 0.3m; T 0.1m) set on edge, aligned NW-SE. This may be part of a cist. Another cairn (CL010-097002-) lies c. 35m to the NNE, and there is another (CL010-097003-) c. 33m to the SW.

Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 15 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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