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Cairn - unclassified

Clashganny West, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Clashganny West, 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
Clashganny West
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24207, -7.79751
SMR number
TS091-009016-

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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

On a gradual W-facing slope of Barranacullia hill in the Knockmealdown mountains. This cairn 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-), a possible ring-cairn (TS091-009002-), clearance cairns (TS091-009005-) and a field system (TS091-009013-) identified by Diarmuid O'Keeffe, 1996. A hut site (TS091-009006-) is located 14m to the W and a stone enclosure (TS091-009007-) is clearly visible on the slope across the river valley. A cairn (dims. 5.3m N-S; 5.6m E-W; H 0.35-1.05m) composed of sandstone stones which are quite large. This appears to be a deliberate cairn rather than clearance and may be associated with burial. In Scotland slightly larger cairns amidst smaller clearance cairns have been classified as burial cairns (RCAHMS 1990, 2).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 03 March 2014

References

Royal commission on the ancient and historical monuments of Scotland 1990 North-east Perth an archaeological landscape. Her Majesties Stationery Office. Edinburgh.

Nearby in the register

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

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