Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Roughaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roughaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Grave (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97620, -9.11260
- SMR number
- CL016-054----
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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 bottom of a S-facing slope in a field of reclaimed grassland. Named ‘Ancient Grave’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1900, 431) described a cist in Roughaun near Cahermore (CL016-052001-) c. 150m to the NW with two skeletons ‘not extended, but with their feet to the east’. In 1907 he gave dimensions for the cist (L 1.67m; Wth 1.1m) and noted that the burials were discovered in 1885 by a Mr. G Fitzgerald (Westropp 1907, 464). An outcropping rock (L 1m; T 0.15m) at the S extent of a cairn (CL016-054002-) may be the partial remains of the cist.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 18 May 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The cahers of county Clare: their names, features, and bibliography. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series 3, vol. 6, 415-49.
Westropp, T.J. 1907 The cists, dolmens, and pillars of the western half of the county of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26C, 447-72.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.