Cairn - burial cairn

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the NW slopes of Tibradden Mountain. A cairn excavated in 1849. Within the cairn a central cist containing a bowl food vessel and cremation enclosed within a circular chamber (diam. c. 3m). The monument was investigated in 1956 as part of conservation works and interpreted as a Bronze Age cairn with centrally-placed cist (Ó hEochaidhe 2003). A partially lintelled passage runs off the chamber in the NNE. A secondary urn burial was found within the cairn (Farrington 1933, 252-4; Price 1940, 121, 133; Waddell 1970, 117). A granite boulder (DU025-023002-) is situated 30m to the SE and is decorated with a cross and figure incised.

This monument was subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 155/1940). It was subsequently taken into Guardianship by the State.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

References

Joyce, W. St. John, 1912 (1988 ed.) Neighbourhood of Dublin. Monkstown.

Swords, K. (ed.) 2009 Pre-Norman grave-slabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin region. 2009 edition of an NUIG MA thesis prepared in 1985. Tallaght, Dublin. Local Studies Section, South Dublin Library.

Joyce, W. St. John 1912 (Reprint 1995) The neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce. Dublin. Hughes and Hughes.