Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Piperstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piperstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23709, -6.33942
- SMR number
- DU025-019002-
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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 S slopes of Piperstown Hill. A cairn known as its J. ‘Site J: A cairn of which only about three-quarters of the original appears to have survived. The northern portion is, at present, not visible and it may have been removed or, perhaps, was never constructed. It is crescentic in shape, about 4-75 m. by 3-50 m. in maximum E-W and N-S measurements respectively, and is about 20 cm. in maximum height. No evidence of a kerb.’ This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date (Rynne and Ó hEailidhe 1965, 66).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
References
Rynne, E. and Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1965 A group of prehistoric sites at Piperstown, County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 64C, 3-84.
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