Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glencarbry, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencarbry
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghtseefin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtseefin
- Coordinates
- 52.62445, -8.08552
- SMR number
- TS045-014----
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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 hill in mountainous area with good panoramic views in all driections. Monument consists of a low circular flat-topped cairn (H 1.5m; top diam. 8.5m NE-SW; base diam. 14m NE-SW) which is partially covered in heather and bog with traces of an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.25m) enclosing base of cairn best visible from E to S. Trig. station constructed on top of cairn with large deep cavity (dims. 2m x 2m) in NE sector of cairn summit which may have been the result of modern destruction or could be the remains of a partially destroyed cist.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditch1 mi
- Sweathouse2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.