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
- 53.00204, -9.03305
- SMR number
- CL010-226----
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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
Situated on a low limestone ridge running SW-NE within the Burren National Park. A cairn (diam. c. 8m) somewhat inundated by scrub and with evidence of having been disturbed in the past. A second cairn (CL010-227----) lies c. 60m to the SW. (pers. comm. Michael Lynch)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.