Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballycrinnigan,dranagh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycrinnigan,dranagh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49446, -6.85670
- SMR number
- CW026-079----
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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
On a W facing slope, a low mound of stones (diam. c. 4m; H c. 0.5m) located on a field wall (CW026-044----). Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 82) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C36). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 November 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 Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.