Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Coolnanav, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnanav
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11205, -7.72114
- SMR number
- WA030-084----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Two caves are marked close together on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, situated c. 50m from the SW bank of the NW-SE River Douglas, and adjacent to a parallel mill-race. Smith (1746, 329-30) descibes finding a human scull in one of these caves called Uaimh na mort - the cave of the dead.
Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 August, 2011
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.