Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Fahee South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahee South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04216, -9.03148
- SMR number
- CL010-136----
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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
On a high (between the 500’ and 600’ contours) level area on the N shoulder of a ridge in mixed exposed limestone pavement and rough grazing. Listed as ‘Cemetery cairn’ in the RMP (1996), on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994) and subsequently described as ‘Cairn with exposed slab of chamber/cist’ (pers. comm. P. Walsh, 11-6-1996; SMR file). This well-preserved subcircular cairn (diam. 10m; H 0.9-1.5m) is covered by grass around its lower edge. A possible ‘chamber/cist’ was not visible on inspection in 1999.
See attached images:
• CL010-136----_01.JPG Monument viewed from NE (12-7-2007).
• CL010-136----_02.JPG Monument viewed from WSW (12-7-2007).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.