Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lambay Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48913, -6.03010
- SMR number
- DU009-001024-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 oblong cairn is located on a rock outcrop above Talbots Bay in the W side of the Island (L 13m, Wth 9.50m, H 1.10m). There are no kerbstones evident. There is an artifically raised area to the SE (L12m, Wth 8m) which may be spread cairn material.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.