Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Moyer, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyer
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.90833, -6.90238
- SMR number
- CV034-041----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the highest point of the Loughanlea mountain range. This is a large, well-preserved circular cairn composed of small and medium size stones (diam. at base 17.8m). It ranges in height from 1.1m at NNE to 1.85m at S. The lower portions of the cairn are partially obscured by heather. The cairn may originally have been flat-topped (diam. of top 9.9m) and contains at its centre an OS triangulation pillar (1119 ft.): this is surrounded by a small pile of stones. An inspection in December 2000 recorded a number of holes in the top of the cairn, presumably made by treasure hunters. (O'Donovan 1995, No. 155).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
References
O'Donovan, P.F. 1995 Archaeological inventory of county Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.