Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cutteen South, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cutteen South
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20629, -7.59239
- SMR number
- WA014-048----
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 at the crest of a ridge overlooking Bearna na Madra gap to the S and lowlands E and W of the Monavullagh Mountains. This is a low cairn (dims. 7.9m N-S; 6.2m E-W; H 0.3-0.6m) with a hollow at the centre, where two contiguous stones (L 0.9m; 1m) on the NE sides might be from a cist. (Moore 1995, 199-200, J7)
Moore, M. (1995) A Bronze Age settlement and ritual centre in the Monavullagh Mountains, County Waterford. PPS 61, 191-243.
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: 19 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.