Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballyguileataggle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyguileataggle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghgal (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.43496, -8.80238
- SMR number
- LI038-054----
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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 top of a hill, in an area covered by ferns, furze and briars but recently planted with coniferous trees. An oval cairn of loose stone (H c. 3m; 14.2m N-S; 9.8m E-W), rising in a series of steps along its SW arc. It rises to a roughly oval summit (2.8m N-S; 3.6m E-W). There is a series of depressions in the side of the cairn; these occur at NW (3.6m N-S; 4.5m E-W; D 1m), E (2.2m N-S; 2.4m E-W; D 0.6m), off-centre to E (1.6m N-S; 0.9m E-W; D 0.75m) and at SSE (1.8m N-S; 1.45m; D 0.9m). Recent clearance work by a mechanical digger has created a passageway skirting around the cairn SE->NW; this has created a band of earth and stone against the base of the cairn (Wth 3m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 322/36, 37 on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.