Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Cahersherkin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahersherkin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94425, -9.21678
- SMR number
- CL016-160----
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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
Situated on a S-facing slope in a lowlying area with higher ground to the N and E. A slightly raised rectangular area (9.3m NW-SE; 10.4m NE-SW at base: 8m NW-SE, 7.6m NE-SW at top: H 0.1-0.3m except at S where it is 0.8m). There is a slight mound (Wth 1.6m; H 0.1m) at NE and a raised rectangular platform (3m x 2.2m; H 0.2-0.3m) at the W corner. There are some flat stones (0.2m x 0.15m) on the surface and as a form of cladding from W to NW. Described by the landowner as a famine burial.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.