Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballybrennock, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennock
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18293, -7.23857
- SMR number
- WA025-012----
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
According to Power (1908, 189) a place called 'an bréagán' at Ballybrennock was a hill with a stone pile representing a man. This was probably a drystone built cairn, but the knoll is now occupied by a number of modern-looking clearance cairns.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 16th May 2011.
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.