Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Creevagh (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.