Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairnfield
Ballycrinnigan,dranagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrinnigan,dranagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.49223, -6.87196
- SMR number
- CW026-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Recorded by Brindley and Kilfeather (1993, 8 (entry 56)) as follows: 'three groups of small cairns with kerbs (diam. c. 2m, H c. 0.8m). Masked by dense vegetation at time of inspection.'
Following a gorse fire on the mountain in 2010 two distinct cairnfields were identified and the individual cairns were recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 63-83) as part of a Master's thesis. See the following record numbers for individual cairns:
Cairnfield 1: CW026-038----, CW026-039----, CW026-040----, CW026-041----, CW026-043----, CW026-045----, CW026-047----, CW026-048----, CW026-049----, CW026-068---- CW026-050----, CW026-059----; CW026-060----, CW026-061----, CW026-062----, CW026-063----, CW026-064----, CW026-065----, CW026-066----, CW026-067----, CW026-068----, CW026-069----, CW026-070----, CW026-071----, CW026-072----, CW026-073----, CW026-074----, CW026-075----, CW026-076----, CW026-077----, CW026-078----, CW026-079---- and CW026-080----.
Cairnfield 2: CW026-053----, CW026-054----, CW026-055----, CW026-056----, CW026-057---- and CW026-058----
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 14 November 2013
References
Brindley, A.L. and Kilfeather, A. 1993 Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Ó Murchú, S. 2013 Archaeology among the blackthorns. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 2012, Vol. XXI, 35-55, Wordwell, Dublin.
Ó Murchú, S. 2011 Life and Death on Dranagh Mountain; An Archaeological Investigation of an Upland Landscape in County Carlow. Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.