Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Boggan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boggan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66387, -7.51328
- SMR number
- KK017-013----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the crest of a hill with panoramic views. Identified on an aerial photograph (GSI S 476, 1973-7). It is indicated as a trig. station on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. As it is the highest point for miles around it has also been utilised for locating television masts. It consists of a roughly raised circular area (diam. c. 15m; H 0.2m) composed of rock with several large boulders around its edge. A bank (H 0.7m; Wth 3m) runs for 10m NW-SE along the NE edge, possibly all that remains of a former field boundary. This may be the remains of a much denuded cairn.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.