Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilmore North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carns (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95323, -9.18441
- SMR number
- CL016-077----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in marshy gorse-covered pasture on the N shore of Lough Fergus, which has been partially drained. Named ‘Carns’ on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘potential site-name’ in the RMP (1996). No visible surface traces of any cairns survive. Some spreads of boulders hidden among the gorse and bramble appeared natural. According to local information, cairns were knocked down years ago and are now all overgrown. A ‘chair’ on top of one them was supposed to be a cure for lumbago. See also CL016-076----.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 9 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.