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Cairn - unclassified

Ballinascorney Upper,Ballymana,Mountseskin, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, 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
Ballinascorney Upper,Ballymana,Mountseskin
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25274, -6.41159
SMR number
DU024-026----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 largely grass-covered cairn lies at the junction of three townland boundaries on Tallaght Hill. A circular in cairn (diam. c. 18m; H c. 3m). The stones from the top of the cairn have been robbed. There are no kerbstones visible. The SW quadrant is under forest and a NE-SW drain S of a field boundary, runs into the middle of the monument. In 1994 the cairn was further damaged when a newly constructed forest road cut through the base of the cairn on its N side. A shooting hide has been constructed on the top of the monument. Mentioned by Price (1940, 123).

Compiled by: Gerladine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018

References

Price, L. 1940 The Antiquities and Place Names of South County Dublin. Dublin Historical Record 2, 121-133.

Nearby in the register

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

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