Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Caheraphuca, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheraphuca
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.93453, -8.90476
- SMR number
- CL026-015----
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
See attached document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961)
Caheraphuca wedge tomb is a national monument in state care, no. 466.
CL026-015----_01.pdf
CL026-015----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from NW.
Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.