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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Clooneen (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Clooneen, 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
Clooneen (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99243, -9.14870
SMR number
CL016-020030-

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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

Within a field system (CL009-059001) at the edge of a plateau of limestone pavement overlooking lower ground to the NW and higher ground all around except to the W.
This poorly preserved and much-collapsed wedge tomb is defined by a chamber aligned N-S. Only one upright slab (L 2.8m; Wth 0.05-1m; H. 0.7m) survives on its E side. The capstone (L 2.3m E-W; Wth c. 2.1m, max. T 0.3m) has fallen to the N. Multiple small upright stones around it may represent an antechamber (Wth 1.1m). The remains of a grass-covered cairn (9.2m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.8m) surround the tomb. A cashel (CL016-020023-) is located c. 40m to the NW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 20 April 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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