Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kerb circle
Coumaraglinmountain, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coumaraglinmountain
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19474, -7.60719
- SMR number
- WA014-033007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gentle W-facing slope of the broad NE-SW upper Araglin river valley, and c. 160m E of the stream. A semicircle of ten stones (diam. 8.55m) is open to the W. The kerb circles (WA014-033008-) and (WA014-033009-) are c. 40m to the SW. (Moore 1995, 208-9, 223, 231, 243, N2)
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1996).
References
Moore, M. 1995 A bronze age settlement and ritual centre in the Monavullagh mountains, county Waterford, Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61, 191-243.
Nearby in the register
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.