Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glenough Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenough Lower
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62407, -8.06987
- SMR number
- TS045-015----
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
This was classified in the SMR (1992) and RMP (1997) as 'Cairn possible' having been identified as such on an aerial photograph (GSI R 303/02, 08/04/74). On S-facing slope of Knockbane Hill in upland area overlooking a tributary of the Aughaglawny river to the S. On field inspection in 2000 there was no visible trace of this above ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Field system1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.