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
- 53.02147, -8.99674
- SMR number
- CL010-221----
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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
On karst ground at the NE end of a col between Knockanes Hill to the NW and another ridge to the SE, offering wide views from NNE to E and visible from the NE approach to the col. This oval-shaped cairn (11.2m E-W; 8.6m N-S; H 1.7-3m) is composed largely of fist-sized stones and has an even surface. The cairn material forms an E-W ridge (L 2.1m) at the top of the cairn. A later drystone wall overlies the W side of the cairn, and continues to the NW.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-221----_01.jpg View of cairn from the N
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.