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Cairn - unclassified

Burren (Tullyhaw By., Tuam ED), County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Burren, County Cavan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Burren (Tullyhaw By., Tuam ED)
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.26604, -7.88684
SMR number
CV004-003002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated 10m SW of a wedge tomb (CV004-003----). The cairn has been disturbed by tree-planting. It is round in outline, 5.5m in diameter and up to 1m high. Inward-leaning kerbstones survive along its southern half. These are generally 0.5m x 0.8m high with the exception of two at SE and one at W which are each 1.2m high. (Lowry-Corry and Richardson 1937, 168; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 105, no. 3; Sherlock 2007, 74, Burren 1)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995), no. 128.

Date of upload: 16 November 2012

References

Sherlock, R. 2007 Northwest Co. Cavan Survey. An archaeological survey of northwest Cavan: the other Burren. Monograph 1. Dublin. Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Lowry-Corry, D. and Richardson, P. 1937 Megalithic monuments in the Parish of Killinagh, Co. Cavan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 67, 155-75.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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