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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Coonmore, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Coonmore, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coonmore
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68696, -8.19800
SMR number
TN038-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a knoll on the lower souther slopes of Mauherslieve in a forestry plantation. Two set stones and a large prostrate slab mark the site. The set stones are both aligned approximately NNE-SSW and are so disposed as to suggest that they might represent two close-set lines of walling. The prostrate slab is 1.35m to the S of these and measures 2.6m by 1.5m x 0.5m thick. It could be a displaced roofstone or a fallen septal-stone. The remains can be explained as the last vestiges of a wedge tomb but so scant are they that the true nature of the site must remain uncertain.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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