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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
53.04469, -9.03145
SMR number
CL010-187----

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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

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

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

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