Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Stalleen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stalleen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68533, -6.42788
- SMR number
- ME027-105----
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated on the summit of the NE-SW Redmountion ridge on the S bank of the Boyne River, with a wide view over the Brú na Bóinne passage tombs. It was first identified and recorded by Paul Duffy. This is a grass-covered cairn (diam. c. 20m; H 0.4m at S to 1.8m at N) supporting four hawthorn trees, but the centre has been dug out. It may have had a trig. station (402 feet) which is no longer evident. A possible fragment of a saddle quern was recovered from the monument. (Duffy 2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 October 2017
References
Duffy, P. 2018 Under the Hawthorn Tree. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 32, No. 3, 43-6.
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.