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Cairn - unclassified

Toonagh (Bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Toonagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Toonagh (Bunratty Upper By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cairn (1921)
Coordinates
52.84121, -8.82937
SMR number
CL034-095004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying position of the NE bank of the NW-SE Hell River and 9m W of the inauguration mound (CL034-095001-/CL034-095007-). A subrectangular overgrown cairn (dims. of base 21m N-S; 12m E-W; H 1.6-2.2m) with a flat top (5m N-S; 4m E-W). There are facing stones (H 0.3m) at N and S, and there is an earthen ramp (dims. of base 10m N-S; 6m E-W; Wth of top 3m E-W; max. H 1.4m) with external walling (H 0.3m) along the W side leading up to the top from the S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore and Leo Morahan

Date of upload: 19 June 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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