Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Milltown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed (Site of) (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86994, -8.80207
- SMR number
- CL035-004----
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
This feature, named as ‘Diarmuid and Grania’s Bed’ on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map, stood in gently undulating, improved pasture with reasonable views. Some rock outcrop forms a low rise close to NE. The monument is named as ‘Site of’ on the OS 25-inch map suggesting that it was no longer extant by the late 19th century. Westropp (1902-04, 112) concurs with cartographic evidence that the monument was gone by the turn of the 20th century and describes it as having been ‘a ruined box of slabs’. On inspection in 2017 there were no visible remains of any such features at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 October 2017
References
Westropp, T.J. 1902-4 The cists, dolmens, and pillars in the eastern half of the county of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 24C, 107-131.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.