Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahee North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04622, -9.17573
- SMR number
- CL010-186----
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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 rough pasture on the E shoulder of a prominent hill, with wide views out to the E, and within a relict field system (CL006-164----). Listed as ‘Cairn’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a Tom Coffey map annotation: ‘small cairn’ (SMR file). Only a low, heather-covered subcircular mound in which no stone was obvious was located during an inspection 1999.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.