Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Coolmine (Newcastle By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmine (Newcastle By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26237, -6.45788
- SMR number
- DU021-047----
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Situated in a forest clearing bordering a forest track in Slievethoul Wood, to the NW of Lugg henge (DU024-008----). This is a semicircular denuded cairn (diam.20m; H 2m). There is a hollow in the centre of the cairn which may be the remains of the large cist or chamber formerly identified by Kilbride-Jones (1950, 315).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
Kilbride-Jones 1950 Excavations at Lugg, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 53C, 314-32.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.