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Megalithic structure

Foilmahonmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Foilmahonmore, County Tipperary South, 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
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----

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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

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

Nearby in the register

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

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