Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Aglish, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aglish
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98929, -8.98818
- SMR number
- CL017-052----
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
Situated on level ground which slopes slightly to the S. Indicated as a hachured circular feature on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. This is a modern D-shaped clearance cairn (8.2m NE-SW; 9.6m NW-SE) with a straight E face, comprising some large stones (diam. 0.8m) at the base. A large quantity of ‘fist-size’ stones have been thrown inside the straight side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.