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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97442, -9.11475
- SMR number
- CL016-146002-
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
On a low flat-topped hillock in pasture. A grassed-over flat-topped cairn (dims. at base: 6.2m N-S; 4.3m E-W; dims. at top 1.8m E-W; 1.16m N-S; H 0.3-0.6m). A standing stone (CL016-146001-) is located at its NE edge.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 3 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.