Cairnbeg, County Clare | Discover Alone

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In rough pasture near the NE edge of a N-S ridge on the E side of the Caher valley, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). There is a good view of Galway Bay to the NE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Cairnbeg’ on the latter ed. In 1901, Westropp (1901, 278) recorded it as ‘the cairn of Cairnbeg in a wall in Poulacappel’ A large subcircular cairn (20m NE-SW; 19m NW-SE; H 2.8m) with some outer stone-facing visible at SE. A later field wall runs across it from NW-SE. Slab walls run 30m to the E and W off the S end the cairn before turning N to form a large irregularly shaped enclosure/field (c. 155m NNW-SSE); another modern WSW-ENE running wall crosses it at NE and NW. The relationship between the cairn and slab walls is not clear.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL005-016

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