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Cairn - unclassified

Glencolumbkille North,Killeenmacoog South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Glencolumbkille North, Killeenmacoog South, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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