Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Claragh (Drumcarn ED), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh (Drumcarn ED)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09156, -7.28109
- SMR number
- CV016-015001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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
Sited on the summit of a drumlin hill. An approximately rectangular cairn (dims. 9.1m N-S;7.1m E-W). Much denuded (max. H. 1.1m). The remains of a megalithic structure called 'Cloghard' (CV016-015001-) lies 15m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.