Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Ballyfolan, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfolan
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21758, -6.43063
- SMR number
- WI001-010----
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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 on level ground at a break in a gentle W-facing slope. Circular cairn (diam. 10m; H 1m) with an outer, apparently free-standing stone circle at the S and E (diam. 16m). (Price and Walshe 1933, 47-8)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.