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Coumaraglinmountain, County Waterford, Ireland

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Townland
Coumaraglinmountain
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.18838, -7.61702
SMR number
WA014-033018-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the floor of the NE-SW upper Araglin river valley, at the S edge of the ravine of a NE-SW tribuatary stream at a point where it turns NW. This is a semicircular setting of four stones (diam. 3.2m) open to the N. It is part of a concentrated group of monuments, and is just W of ring-cairn (WA014-033013-) and S of cairn circle (WA014-033014-). (Moore 1995, 205, 208-9, 216, 243, N5)

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).

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.

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

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