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Cairn - unclassified

Glennaskagh,Gurtnapisha, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Glennaskagh, Gurtnapisha, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glennaskagh,Gurtnapisha
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44588, -7.55499
SMR number
TS071-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In heather with forestry to NW, at 500m spot-height of Knockahunna. Cairn identified by Con Manning (ASI files 15.05.1995). Sub-oval mound of stones (dims. 14m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SE; max. H 1.4m) truncated by field boundary to NW and by trackway to SE. Cabin (2.2m NE-SW; 2.0m NW-SE; H 1.45m) constructed on top is of random rubble with coarse concrete mortar and closed by iron door to SE. Iron box to NW may have housed a battery. Various sawn off metal poles protrude from concrete bases at ESE and around the NW-side indicate the remains of television masts erected c. 1980s. Cairn (TS071-021----) on Sheegounna and cairn (TS078-001----) on Slievenamon are located c. 1km to SSE and c. 2km SSW respectively.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 30 September 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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