Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Fahee South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahee South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03466, -9.03242
- SMR number
- CL010-216----
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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 an ENE-WSW orientated linear depression in rough pasture, on elevated ground within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). This subcircular overgrown cairn (8.5m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.7-1.2m) has several hollows (D 0.4-0.5m) in the top, due to the removal of stones.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 23 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.