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
- 52.99363, -9.12219
- SMR number
- CL016-042----
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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 a SE facing slope with a wide basin to the SE and slightly higher ground c. 50m to the W. Listed as ‘cairns’ in the RMP (1996).
A grass-covered cairn of stone (16.3m E-W; 15.4m N-S; H 1.3-2m) with a visible polygonal cist (1.6m NE-SW) in the centre. The cist is overgrown with moss and comprises four stones which are not contiguous and may have been disturbed by the quarrying of a depression (L 2m; Wth 0.6m) visible at the SW extent.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.