Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Currane, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currane
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.62153, -6.90256
- SMR number
- CW019-060----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Marked on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as low mound (max. diam. c. 20m). Bulge with stones visible below foundation of partly levelled old field boundary. Possibly cairn, most of which has been removed.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.