What is recorded here

Westropp found a tiny cist hidden inside a cairn on a gentle Clare slope in 1915, though only one upright slab and a few smaller stones remain visible today. The chamber is no larger than a child’s bed, yet it sits within a broad multiperiod field system and near a cashel, suggesting the slope has served human ritual, boundary and memory for a very long time.

Within a cairn (CL009-059059-) on a gentle S-facing grassed-over karst limestone slope in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). One upright slab (L 1m; H 0.4m; T 0.2m), oriented NW-SE, is sticking out of the top of the cairn. Smaller stones lie against the SW face of this slab, creating a cavity, which Westropp (1915, 257) recorded as ‘the remains of small slab cist’. A cashel (CL009-059056-) lies c. 55m to the WNW. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059059-_01.jpg View from N Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 17 June 2022

A Bronze Age cist tomb; part of a multiperiod landscape with potential ritual or burial significance.

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