Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carney, Commons of, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carney, Commons of
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97767, -8.18816
- SMR number
- TN010-021----
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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 a N-S ridge of rock outcrop in undulating countryside. A large flat-topped cairn of loosely piled stones (H 2.5m; base diam. 11m) with a slight depression on top. Disused limekiln located nearby to the S of the cairn.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.