Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Bolingbrook, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bolingbrook
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75690, -8.17995
- SMR number
- TN033-058----
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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 level terrace in pasture on a SW-facing hill-slope. This is a much disturbed subcircular grrass-grown cairn measuring 8m NW-SE by 7m NE-SW by about 0.5m high. An orthostatic structure is partially exposed at about the centre but it is very difficult to examine. It seems best interpreted as two conjoined cists (TN033-058001) aligned NNW-SSE. The more northerly and larger example measures about 1.8m long and 0.5m wide and is represented by three stones at the E, one at the W, an end-stone at the N and another at the S which separates the two cists. The smaller cist is 0.6m long and 0.5m wide. As well as the end-stone it shares with the larger cist, it is represented by one stone at the W and an end-stone at the S.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.