Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymana, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymana
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 53.25357, -6.40583
- SMR number
- DU024-027001-
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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 a rise in a natural plateau on the NE side of Tallaght Hill which is in rough upland pasture. An elongated grass-covered cairn (L 16.7m; Wth 13m; H 1.15m). It is partially defined by a stone circle (DU024-027002-) of sixteen irregularly spaced boulders of granite and conglomerate. Handcock (1991, 151, 2nd ed. ) identified a chamber in the cairn surrounded by a circle of stones. McDix (1925, 26) described an inner circle of stones (diam.2.7m).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
References
McDix, E.R. 1925 Some antiquities on Tallaght Hill. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 55, 126-9.
Handcock, W.D. 1877 (1991 ed.) The history and antiquities of Tallaght in the county of Dublin. Dublin. Anna Livia Press.
Nearby in the register
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.