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
- 52.98227, -9.10796
- SMR number
- CL016-058----
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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
Near the top of a W-facing slope with higher ground c. 150m to the NE and with views from SE to N. Identified as ‘Site I’ in Jones and Walsh (1996, 90). A circular, stone cairn (diam. 11m; H c. 1-1.4m) with a hole dug in the centre where a large stone slab is exposed aligned NW-SE (L 1.4m; Wth 0.8-1m; T c. 0.5m). A second stone slab is visible at the side of the hole to the SW (L 0.8m; Wth 0.8m). Another cairn (CL016-057----) identified as ‘Site J’ by Jones and Walsh (1996, 90) and a fulacht fia (CL016-057002-) are located c. 100m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 24 May 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.