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
- 53.23712, -6.33943
- SMR number
- DU025-019006-
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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 Site E. ‘Site E: A small, roughly circular, cairn of stones. It averages about 3-75 m. in diameter and is about 20 cm. in maximum height. At its centre is a hollow about 70 cm. in average diameter, which suggests that this cairn has suffered disturbance. No evidence of a kerb’ (Rynne and Ó hEailidhe 1965, 64). This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date.
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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