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Cairn - ring-cairn

Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - ring-cairn, Laughanstown, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Laughanstown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24211, -6.15161
SMR number
DU026-153----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

To the S of the wedge tomb at Laughanstown (26:24) a low oval embanked monument (Diam c. 30m) was identified during works on the South-Eastern Motorway. The bank was composed of field stones, sometimes grouped around glacial erratics. Artifacts recovered from among the stones included a saddle quern, a maul, a porphyry stone axe and hammerstones. Fragments of burnt one were found scattered across the ground surface. In the centre of the enclosure there were a number of pits, one contained a spindle whorl, the other a saddle quern (Seaver 2003, 129).

References

Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2004 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 172. Bray. Wordwell.

Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2003 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 129. Bray. Wordwell.

Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2002 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 112-14. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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