Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lambay Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockbane
- Coordinates
- 53.49310, -6.01712
- SMR number
- DU009-001002-
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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
This circular cairn is situated in a prominent position on the N side of Lambay Island. It stands on the summit of a rock outcrop, the highest point on Lambay and overlooks the W end of the island. Its natural position exaggerates the scale of the monument (Diam. Base 27m, Top 4.10m , H 9m; ). The S face falls steeply and the N face falls to a natural ledge in the bedrock. It is grass covered with loose boulders visible. There are no kerbstones evident. It has a round profile with a narrow flat-top which may have been created when a trignometrical station was inserted (Westropp 1922, 70; Cooney 1993, 24-5). A transect of geophysical survey across the cairn did not reveal any internal structures (Cooney 2009, 160).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 31 December 2014
References
Cooney, G. 2009, The prehistory of Lambay, a long view. In Baker, C. (ed.) Axes, Warriors and Windmills: Recent archaeological discoveries in north Fingal. Fingal County Council.9-22.
Nearby in the register
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- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Axe factoryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.