Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Rathcoun, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoun
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49823, -7.92270
- SMR number
- TS060-107011-
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
In the SW corner of a rectangular enclosure (TS060-107006-). Small sunken, oval area (dims. 1.6m E-W; 1.47m N-S; D 0.15m) defined by 5-6 sizeable boulders arranged around a central stone which is at the bottom of the depression. Stones embedded in the sod with their tops protruding from same. Stones generally obscured by lush grass but visible when grass prodded and then pulled back. A possible mound barrow (TS060-107010-) is c. 36m to ESE and enclosure (TS060-107005-) is c. 30m to NE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.