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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78284, -8.87817
- SMR number
- CL042-074013-
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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
A cairn is located on the summit of the hill within Mooghaun hillfort at a height of 264ft (80.47m). The flat-topped cairn, roughly subcircular in plan (diam. c. 4.7m at base; c. 4.3m at top; av. H 1.2m), is constructed of flat limestone boulders. An uneven coursing of the stones is visible on the slightly battered exterior. An Ordnance Survey trigonometric pillar is sited in the centre of the top of the cairn and the present form of the cairn may be a result of rebuilding by the OS. A series of limestone-slab steps at the south give access to the summit. Around the bottom edge of the cairn at N and W there are traces of limestone rubble. Excavation in 1993 has shown that the bottom course rests directly on bedrock. (Condit and Grogan 2005, 122)
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.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.