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Cairn - unclassified

Creevagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Creevagh, 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
Creevagh (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00662, -9.08312
SMR number
CL010-212----

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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

On a low rise in rough pasture, with fair views in all directions. This subcircular grass-covered cairn (9m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.5-1.3m) has a flat top (diam. 3m) and is poorly defined at its E edge. A natural scarp arcs SW and then NW from the S edge of the cairn. There is a natural N-S orientated hollow just to the E of the cairn, and on the E side of that (4m from the cairn) is a curving scarp of what looks like a natural cairn/mound in which an electricity pole is set. A grass-covered wall which runs E-W over the top of the cairn and continues beyond it in both directions is visible in satellite imagery (Aerial Premium 2013-2018).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 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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