Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Roughaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roughaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Grave
- Coordinates
- 52.97620, -9.11260
- SMR number
- CL016-054002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. An overgrown stone cairn (2m E-W; 1.2m N-S; H 0.5-0.7m) aligned E-W. An exposed stone (L 1m; T 0.15m) at S may be the partial remains of a cist (CL016-054001-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 18 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 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.