Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cummer Beg, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummer Beg
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS039-032----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OS Letters 'at the foot of a heathy mountain there is a cairn of stones, of which a considerable quantity has been removed and what remains is much scattered. There was a sepulchral chamber in the centre of this cairn as appears from one side still remaining, which is a large flag measuring seven feet [2.1m] in length, three feet six inches [1.06m] in height and fourteen inches [0.35m] in thickness. This cairn is fifty paces in circumference but not more than two and a half feet [0.75m] in height at present. The natives have no name for it at present but the White Stones because it is covered with a whiteish moss' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 99-100). This cairn is unlocated within Cummer Beg townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.