What is recorded here

Cromlechs marks a vanished megalithic structure on a high Clare ridge, recorded on maps from 1842 but gone when Westropp searched in 1905. It still belongs beside a surviving cairn and two wedge tombs, suggesting the ridge once carried more than one burial place. The stones may have fallen, been taken for walls or simply dissolved into the limestone pavement, yet the name preserves the shape of what the land lost.

On a high (above the 500’ contour), short NE-SW ridge rise in mixed rough pasture and exposed limestone pavement. Indicated and labelled as ‘Cromlechs’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Noted by Borlase (1897, 74-76) but no trace of the monument was subsequently found by Westropp (1905, 215). Listed as ‘Megalithic structure (site)’ in the RMP (1996). There is a cairn (CL017-015003-) c. 42m to the SW, and two wedge tombs in the immediate vicinity: one (CL017-015005-) lies c. 54m to the N and another (CL017-015004-) c. 78m to the WNW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23-10-2025

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