Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Commons (upperthird By.),ross (upperthird By.),boolacloghagh, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (upperthird By.),ross (upperthird By.),boolacloghagh
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26062, -7.53287
- SMR number
- WA006-062----
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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
Situated on a plateau of the Comeragh Mountains overlooking Coum Iarthar Lough to the W. Subrectangular cairn (dims. 8.3m E-W; 6.3m N-S; H 0.2-0.9m) with a pyramid of stones (H 0.9m) which is probably modern at the centre.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Field boundary1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairn1 mi
- Booley hut1 mi
- Cairnfield1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.