Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballycrinnigan, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrinnigan
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49398, -6.86532
- SMR number
- CW026-063----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
At the base of a NW facing slope, a long low cairn (L c. 4m; Wth c. 1.6m; H c. 0.5m) with long axis orientated NE-SW. The main body is made up of granite slabs set at an angle in two parallel lines with the gap in between filled with stones. Five large quartz stones protrude from peat at the SE. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 69) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C11). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 30 October 2013
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Ó Murchú, S. 2013 Archaeology among the blackthorns. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 2012, Vol. XXI, 35-55, Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.