Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glenquin,knockans Lower,leitra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenquin,knockans Lower,leitra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02344, -9.00140
- SMR number
- CL010-220----
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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
Near the S edge of the semi-karst summit plateau of Knockanes Hill. This quite large flat-topped cairn (12.3m N-S; 11.8m E-W; H 0.5-0.9m) has been dug out in its W centre, creating a subcircular crater (diam. c. 2m; D 0.6m) with adjacent upcast. There is a pyramidal stone heap (diam. 2.2m; H 1-1.3m) at the S edge of the cairn’s summit. The E edge of the cairn may have been cleared back. The cairn is the meeting-point of three townlands and the baronies of Burren and Inchiquin. Their boundaries are defined by drystone walls which intersect at the top of the cairn.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-220----_01.jpg View of cairn from S
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.