Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Rush, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rush
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cairn called the Giants hill
- Coordinates
- 53.53277, -6.08565
- SMR number
- DU008-013001-
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Shown on 4 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 on a small headland south of Loughshinney village. Prior to c. 1838 the site comprised a circular cairn (diam. c. 30m) with a funnel-shaped entrance and a rectangular chamber (L 2.4m; Wth 1.8m). Human bones were found in the chamber and midden material containing a possible microlith (DU008-013003)-) was found underneath (Newenham 1838, 247; Flanagan 1984, 15). Two cist burials were found in the cairn and a third W of the kerbstones (DU008-013002-).The cairn was partially removed by land improvement in 1838, the remainder incorporated into a field boundary. Remains of this field boundary extend almost from the cliff edge for c. 21m NS. Large stones (> 1m diam.) and small stone cairn material are visible within the overgrown field boundary. One large boulder is out lying c.2m south-east of the field boundary. No markings or decoration visible on these stones. Magnetic gradiometry undertaken by the Discovery Programme (Licence 08R247) did not succeed in establishing a location for the passage tomb as a large part of the area had been subject to intensive ploughing.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 15 December 2014
References
Newenham, R.N. 1837 Tumulus or barrow, near Rush, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1, 247-9.
Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.