Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Barnageeragh, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnageeragh
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.58508, -6.14391
- SMR number
- DU005-016001-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated to the north-west end of a low ridge above the beach at Barnageeragh. Extensive views of eastern coast of Ireland north to the Mourne Mountains. This is a circular round-topped cairn (diam. 15m; H 2m) c. 200m NNW of the site of another cairn (DU005-017001-) (Hartnett 1957, 266). Cairn site overgrown with scrub-has been treated and scrub cut back in recent past. Cairn site disturbed by local landowner George Hamilton in the mid-19th century (Hamilton, 1846). As part of pre-development investigations geophysical survey (magnetometry and resitivity) took place at this relatively intact cairn. It was recorded as being oval in plan and divided into several irregular-shaped features. Anomalies close to the cairn were interpreted as pits (PZP 2004, 10).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 7 November 2014
References
Hartnett, P.J. 1957 Excavation of a passage grave at Fourknocks, Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58C, 197-277.
Posselt & Zickgraf Prospsktionen 2004, Geophysical Survey at Barnageeragh townland, Skerries, July 2004. Licence 04R082. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Hamilton, G. 1846, On a North House in the Demesne of Hampton and the Opening of a Tumulus near Knocknagin in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol.III, 249-252
Nearby in the register
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.