Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Creevagh (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevagh (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00464, -9.08891
- SMR number
- CL010-158----
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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 rocky ground with some hazel scrub and some patches of rough pasture. Noted by Tom Coffey in 1994 (SMR file) at IG 12695, 18540/ITM 526916, 695436. Listed as ‘Megalithic quarry’ in the RMP (1996). This possible prehistoric quarry is marked only by a single firmly set upright stone slab (H 0.95m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.1m) in an area with some flat sheets of exposed crag bedrock.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-158----_01 View of upright slab
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.