Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Crohan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crohan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clogheracaun
- Coordinates
- 52.25103, -7.83542
- SMR number
- TS091-023----
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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 crest of Knockroe hill on the NE edge of the Knockmealdown Mountains within an area of coniferous forestry. Monument identified on OS Ortho 2005. The cairn is delineated by wooden posts and there is a buffer zone around the monument. There is a panoramic view from this cairn. A cairn (TS091-022----) at foot of Crohan hill is visible 900m to the SW. This is a denuded circular cairn (diam. 15.5m; H 1.2m) composed of old red Devonian sandstone stones. In the S quadrant some stones have been heaped up the form a small pile (diam. c. 1m; H 1.4m above the cairn). The edge of the cairn is well defined, with some large earthfast stones which may be kerbing.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.