Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Parknabinnia, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parknabinnia
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98174, -9.10924
- SMR number
- CL016-057----
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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 SW-facing slope along a NE-SW mound wall that forms part of an extensive field system (CL017-180---). A grassed-over cairn (11m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW; H 1-1.3m) with two upright stones visible on the N side c. 2m from the edge. The cairn is abutted at SW by a later enclosure which opens to the NW. A fulacht fia (CL016-057002-) is located c. 11m to the SW. Another cairn (CL016-058----) is located c. 100m to the NNE. (Jones and Walsh 1996, 90)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 8 June 2022
References
Jones, C. and Walsh, P. 1996 Recent discoveries on Roughan Hill, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 126, 86-107.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.