Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballinascorney Upper,mountseskin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinascorney Upper,mountseskin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25201, -6.41555
- SMR number
- DU024-025----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of Tallaght Hill at Knockannavea, on a right-angle bend in the townland boundary. A circular round-topped cairn (diam.22m; H 3.5m) covered in furze. There are no indications of kerbstones present. There is a central hollow where the cairn has been robbed of its stone. In 1994 this site was damaged when a forest road cut into the perimeter of the cairn in the N, W and NW. Both a metal and a wooden pole have been inserted into the edge of the monument in the NW and a metal tripod is positioned on the summit. Forestry has been planted directly up to the SE quadrant of the monument. (Healy 1975, 1-19)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
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