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Cairn - unclassified

Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Fahee North, 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
Fahee North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04990, -9.03022
SMR number
CL010-183----

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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

Prominently sited (above the 700’ contour) NW of the summit (OD 721’) of a NE-SW ridge of exposed limestone and rough grazing, offering wide views in most directions, and within a relict field system (CL006-164----). Listed as ‘Barrow’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (see also Coffey 1996, 57). This subcircular ring-cairn (16m N-S; 14m E-W) comprises a central cairn enclosed by a fosse and an outer bank. The subcircular central cairn (7m N-S; c. 6.5m E-W; H 1.1-1.3m) is compact, with some of the stones on its surface showing traces of burning. The fosse is well preserved ESE-S (Wth of base 0.8-0.95m) but elsewhere is mostly filled by stone tumble from the cairn. A grass-covered causeway (Wth 2.2m) crosses the fosse NE. The broad outer bank (Wth 3.2-4m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 0.7-1.3m) of loose stones has totally collapsed along the W side. A later wall is built on top of the bank around most of its circuit.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 13 June 2023

References

Coffey, T. 1996 Field notes. The Other Clare 20, 57-8.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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