Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooghaun South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78303, -8.87859
- SMR number
- CL042-074012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the NW quadrant of the inner enclosure of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-072001-). Excavated in 1993, this cairn (4.9m N-S; 3.7m E-W; H 0.4m) consisted of limestone slabs in an irregular oval shape. No discernible pattern was found to the layering of the stone slabs. The largest slabs were at N; these were flat limestone slabs in an upright or acute angled position. The soil among the stones was a uniform grey-brown gravelly material with occasional flecks of charcoal. It was concluded that this was a clearance cairn in an area where building operations involved quarrying large stone from the bedrock. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 122; Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 138)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 January 2016
References
Condit, T. and Grogan, E. 2005 Mooghaun South: general site description. In E. Grogan, The North Munster Project, vol. 1, 103-130.
Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.