Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Clashganny West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clashganny West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24285, -7.79341
- SMR number
- TS091-009002-
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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 level ground in undulating, upland, boggy terrain on Barranacullia hill in the Knockmealdown mountains. This is part of a complex of enclosures (TS091-009001-; TS091-009007-; TS091-009008-; TS091-009009-; TS091-009012-), hut sites (TS091-009003-; TS091-009004-; TS091-009006-; TS091-009010-; TS091-009011-; TS091-009015-), clearance cairns (TS091-009005-) and a field system (TS091-009013-) identified by Diarmuid O'Keeffe, 1996. Circular area (int. diam. 8.4m N-S; c. 7.2m E-W; ext. diam. 14.4m N-S; c. 13.6m E-W) enclosed by a low bank with internal revetment / kerbstones (Wth 3.4m; H of bank 0.4m; H of kerbstone 0.67m). The best section of kerbing is in the SE quadrant. There is a gap (Wth 3.5m) in the bank in the E quadrant.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairnfieldunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.