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Cairn - unclassified

Crockaunadreenagh, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Crockaunadreenagh, 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
Crockaunadreenagh
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25979, -6.47410
SMR number
DU024-002001-

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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)
  • 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 on Knockandinny on the N extremity of Saggart Hill. A circular cairn with a diam. 10m (Kilbride-Jones 1950, 315). Today the site is in the area of Hole 3 on the fairways of Slade Valley Golf Club. There are no visible remains of the site at ground level. Also the site of a ring-barrow (DU024-002002-).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy

Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 154/1940).

References

Kilbride-Jones 1950 Excavations at Lugg, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 53C, 314-32.

Nearby in the register

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

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