Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glencolumbkille North,killeenmacoog South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencolumbkille North,killeenmacoog South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05083, -8.99307
- SMR number
- CL010-219----
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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 S end of the karst plateau at the summit of Turloughmore Mountain which slopes slightly to the N. Wide views all around, especially from N to E. This poorly preserved, grass-covered subcircular cairn (8.2m E-W; 7.9m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) has a flat top which is slightly higher at SW. Some stones in the cairn are visible, including three non-contiguous possible kerbstones (L 0.3-0.85m; Wth 0.5-0.3m; H 0.2-0.5m) forming a curved line along the edge of the cairn at W-NNW. A modern drystone wall (marking the townland boundary between Glencolumbkille North and Killeenmacoog South townlands as well as the barony boundary between Burren Barony and Inchiquin Barony) runs N-S over the E part of the cairn.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.