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
- 53.04469, -9.03145
- SMR number
- CL010-187----
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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
In rough pasture on a level terrace in the S slope of a NE-SW ridge, with wide views except to the N, and within a relict field system (CL006-164----). Listed as ‘Burial mound’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation (‘mound, cist’) by Tom Coffey, and a note by Paul Walsh referencing a cairn (SMR file). This small subcircular cairn (8m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.4-0.9m) has quite a flat top (5m E-W; 3.5m N-S). Where not covered by grass, the visible cairn material is mostly flat slabs. There is a large, heavily tilting upright slab (H 0.6m) and other much smaller slabs on the upper slope at N. There is another cluster of flat slabs on the upper slope at ESE. A slight hummock (4m E-W; H 0.3-0.5m) extends from the E edge of the cairn.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.