Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
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
- DU024-027002-
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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. A stone circle comprised of a series of 14 irregularly spaced boulders of granite and conglomerate which appear to delimit rather than define a cairn (DU024-027001-). There is a triangular-shaped granite boulder at W (H 1.5m; L 0.9m; Wth 0.6m) and a large recumbent conglomerate (H 1.05m; L 1.3m; Wth 1.2m) almost directly opposite. Mc Dix (1925, 26) mentions an inner circle of stones (diam. c. 2.7m) but this is not apparent at the time of inspection.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 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.