Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Caheraphuca, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheraphuca
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93706, -8.90286
- SMR number
- CL018-087----
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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
A mass-rock was recorded in this townland (pers. comm. T. Coffey, SMR file) and listed as ‘Mass rock, possible’ in the RMP (1996). A much overgrown block of limestone outcrop (max. H 2.4m; L 5.2m; Wth 3m). A link road to a roundabout just W of Crusheen during the development of the N18 Gort to Crusheen roadway in 2010 appears to have cut through this area of rock outcrop.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.