Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99775, -9.10220
- SMR number
- CL010-295----
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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 top of an E-W ridge in rough pasture and within an extensive field system (CL017-180----). A small oval cairn (c. 8m E-W; c. 7m N-S) is visible on OSi MapGenie 2012-2018 and was included as a cairn on a map by Jones, Carey and Hennigar (2011, 38). An unclassified megalithic tomb (CL010-089----) lies c. 75m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 May 2023
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.