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Cairn - unclassified

Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Mooghaun South, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 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

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

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