Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilmashogue, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmashogue
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.25749, -6.27614
- SMR number
- DU025-007003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a forest clearing on a level platform on the N slopes of Kilmashogue Mountain. From an account of the location prior to the growth of forestry in the environs it commanded extensive views to the N, E and W (Kilbride-Jones 1953). In is noted that two cairns lay E of the wedge tomb (DU025-007003-, Healy 1975, 1-19; Turner 1983, 9).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
Kilbride-Jones, H.E. 1953-4 The excavation of an unrecorded megalithic tomb on Kilmashogue mountain, County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 56C, 461-79.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.