Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Clonascra, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonascra
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33307, -7.92643
- SMR number
- OF006-023----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Impossible to examine area as it is covered in dense furze bushes on top of hill. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with situated on top of an esker ridge, no archaeological features visible. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 25). Described by McDonald as 'a group of cairns at the foot of 'The Pinnacles' and appear to be encircling the hill' (McDonald 1987, 25).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.