Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Moydow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moydow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mountkelly Observatory (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.57431, -8.16485
- SMR number
- RO042-017003-
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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 Moydow Hill, and at the centre of hilltop enclosure (RO042-017001-). A subrectangular cairn (dims 10.4m NE-SW; 9.6m E-W; max. H 1.6m) has no visible structural stones, but there is a trig. station on the summit.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.