Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glenquin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenquin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00672, -9.00106
- SMR number
- CL010-214----
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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
At the highest point of the gently NW-sloping karst limestone summit plateau of Mullagh More, with land to the SE sloping steeply to a natural terrace. A subcircular cairn (c. 11.5m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE; H c. 2m) with a conical shape.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.