Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04375, -9.06108
- SMR number
- CL010-130----
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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 an area of mixed scrub and exposed limestone pavement. Listed as ‘Burial’ in the RMP (1996), on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file). This small, subcircular, overgrown and damaged cairn (3.3m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; av. H 0.6m; max. H 0.9m at NE) is truncated at NW, with a disturbed area (L 1.8m) extending NW, where irregular and slab-like stones are visible in the cairn’s composition.
See attached image: CL010-130----_01.JPG Monument viewed from W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.