Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Glengoole South, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glengoole South
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61183, -7.63178
- SMR number
- TS048-041----
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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 high ground in the Slieveardagh hills with panoramic views in all directions. A ringbarrow (TS048-051----) lies 175m to the S on a lower ridge. The remains consist of a trig. station on top of a low amorphous spread of stones which may be the remains of a cairn. Immediately S of the trig. Station, and possibly originally covered by cairn material, are the remains of a large irregular-shaped recumbent slab or capstone (Wth 1.5m x L 1.9m x T 0.4m) supported on smaller stones, possibly overlying a burial chamber. The monument is known locally as the “Druid's Altar” and is indicated as such on an 1824 map of the area (NLI 16.I.17 (1)).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.