Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Garracummer, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garracummer
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathnacloghal Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathnacloghal (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.65107, -8.14869
- SMR number
- TS045-001001-
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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 a gentle SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland region overlooking the Gortnageragh river valley from S to W. Directly N of the ring-cairn there is an outlying low orthostat (TS045-001002-). Monument consists of a low circular rise (diam. 18m SW-NE; 19.5m NW-SE; H 0.3) of loosely piled stones or low orthostats (avg. dims. 1m x 0.5m) which in places consists of double rows of orthostats defining the perimeter of the monument which may represent internal and external kerbing containing cairn material, indicative of a poorly preserved ring-cairn. The interior is fairly open with several low mounds of loosely piled stones. In the OS Namebook (1840) the ring-cairn is described as a fort which 'has a sepulchral chamber inside it' (O'Donovan et. al.) while its local name Rathnacloghal fort is translated as the fort of the white stones.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Donovan, J. 1840 Ordnance Survey Namebooks. County Tipperary.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.