Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Garryroan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryroan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34133, -7.96926
- SMR number
- TS081-032----
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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 a gentle W-facing slope on relatively flat ground in gently rolling terrain, field recently planted with winter corn. A cairn (TS075-064----) is visible on the Galtee Mountains, c. 5.5km to the NNE, the Knockmealdown Mountains dominate the view to the S. Large oval, steep-sided cairn (dims. 21m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW; max. H 2.25m) aligned NW-SE. The top of the cairn (dims. 10.3m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) has a hollow at the SE end which may be the result of a collapsed internal chamber. Composed of loose stones, all sandstone, average c. 20cm in diam. Cairn is too large to be a result of field clearance. A similar cairn is located 340m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.