Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Curraun, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraun
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Farbreaga
- Coordinates
- 52.18217, -7.58556
- SMR number
- WA023-004----
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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 about 50m S of the summit of Farbreaga Mountain. This is a cairn (diam. 11m; max. H 0.9m) with a quarry on the N side and a pyramidal cairn built on the perimeter at SW. The pyramidal cairn is visible from the floor of the upper Dalligan river valley to the S. (Moore 1995, 199-200, J12)
Moore, M. (1995) A Bronze Age setlement 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.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.