Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Pollduff, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollduff
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.02381, -7.70165
- SMR number
- OF039-060004-
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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
Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark. Piles of stones resembling small cairns to the N and S also mark the line of the county boundary.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.