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Cairn - unclassified

Coumaraglinmountain, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Coumaraglinmountain, 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
Coumaraglinmountain
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.19528, -7.60902
SMR number
WA014-033035-

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a gentle SW-facing slope of the upper Coumaraglin valley, with a NNE-SSW ravine of one of the streams c. 10m to the W. A cairn has been dug out and is now visible as a grass-covered ring of stones (ext. diam. 7.6m E-W; 6.9m N-S; ext. H 0.3m at N and E to 1.6-1.7m at S and W) with a flat-bottomed quarry (int. diam. 3.1m N-S; 2.9m E-W; D 0.2-0.4m) at the centre. There is no evidence of any structural stones.

This monument forms part of the national monument complex at Coumaraglinmountain (National Monuments (Preservation) Order No. 4 of 1996).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 March 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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