TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Cairn - clearance cairn

Park (Upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - clearance cairn, Park, County Waterford, 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
Park (Upperthird By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.31770, -7.54930
SMR number
WA002-040007-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE stream to the S, on the early ecclesiastical site known as 'Cíll Eoghan' (Power 1952, 416). Centrally located in the S half of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WA002-040003-) is an overgrown cairn of collapsed material (dims. 7m N-S; 4m E-W; H 1m), which may contain the remains of the church (WA002-040001-). On its W side is a conglomerate double bullaun stone (WA002-040005-). The possible megalithic structures (WA002-040006-) and (WA002-040008-) were adjacent to it to the W and N respectively. (Lyons 1948, 178)

Power, P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.

Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 27th August, 2010.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Cairn - clearance cairn in Waterford All County Waterford records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map