Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knockmajor, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmajor
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75530, -7.15615
- SMR number
- KK011-022----
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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
On the summit of Knockmajor, the highest hill in the area. According to Tighe (1802, 633), 'On the summit of a hill called Knock-major from a modern proprietor Major Purcell, and above the place of burial [KK011-017001-/KK011-017002-], is a small circular enclosure'. Adjacent to the trigonometrical station there is a small coniferous plantation, the ground within which is littered with stones, irregular stoney banks and stones set on edge suggestive of kerbing from S-SW. Possibly the remains of a robbed-out cairn which may have been interpreted as a small enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 January 2018
References
Tighe, W. 1802 Statistical observations relative to the County of Kilkenny. Dublin. The Dublin Society.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.