Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
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
- 52.19528, -7.60902
- SMR number
- WA014-033035-
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
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
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.