Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Middlequarter (newcastle Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middlequarter (newcastle Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clogheracaun
- Coordinates
- 52.25058, -7.81507
- SMR number
- TS091-019----
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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 the N edge of the top of Knocknagearagh hill in the Knockmealdown Mountains, just below the highest point which appears to rise to the S. A denuded cairn (dims. 12.8m N-S; 15.1m E-W; H 0.35m in E quadrant, 1.06m in W quadrant) of red sandstone with some quartz stones visible. In the SE quadrant the edge has been built up to form walling.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 03 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.