Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.24075, -6.15077
- SMR number
- DU026-026----
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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
The site lies on a ridge to the S of the church (DU026-023001-) overlooking Bride's Glen. This is an overgrown area of rock outcrop with some loose stones. There was some doubt expressed in the OS Memoranda as to whether this was actually an archaeological site. It was described as an area that was too stony to till. Marked as a 'carn' on the 1843 OS 6-inch map (Fanning 1974, 151).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.
References
Fanning, T. 1974 A wedge tomb at Laughanstown, Co. Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 104, 151-3.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.