Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Foilmahonmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foilmahonmore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.66127, -8.18348
- SMR number
- TS039-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a low hillock in an upland area with good extensive views in all directions. It is not visible at ground level. A field boundary to the E of the monument has been partially removed, with a modern bungalow in close vicinity. It is marked 'Cromlech' on the 1st ed. (1840) 6-inch map and is described in the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 100) as a dolmen whose orientation is 'east and west' and which 'slopes or inclines to the west. The top flag measures seven feet [2.1m] from east to west and four feet eight inches [1.41m] from north to south. The stones on which this flag rests are buried deep in the earth and their measurements could not be obtained'. (Borlase 1897, vol.1, 54; De Valera & Ó Nualláin 1982, vol.4, 99)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.