Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Rathnageeragh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnageeragh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64563, -6.80780
- SMR number
- CW020-033----
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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
On the N-facing slope of Slievebawn in the Blackstairs Mountain range, in rough upland pasture. A rectangular structure identified by Séamus Ó Murchú and visible on Bing satellite imagery (Ó Murchú 2016). This is not depicted on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map or on subsequent editions, suggesting it pre-dates 1840. Only the grassed-over footings of this sod-built house survive, orientated roughly NW-SE (ibid.). The house forms the SW side of a small enclosed farmyard. The ruins of another upland house (CW020-032----) are located c. 100m to the S.
See attached:
CW020-032----_01 Digitalglobe satellite imagery, viewed 22 February 2021
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 22 February 2021
References
Ó Murchú, S. 2016 The Blackstairs Mountains, south east Ireland: investigating the archaeological potential of an understudied upland landscape. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cursusunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.