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Cairn - unclassified

Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Lambay Island, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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