Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glencap Commons North, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencap Commons North
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16623, -6.15485
- SMR number
- WI007-039001-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle N/NE-facing slope overlooking the Rocky Valley ravine to the N. Two cairns described in Ordnance Survey letters (O’Flanagan 1928, 18). The larger cairn (diam. c. 16m; H 2.7m) lay c. 25m to the S of the smaller one (diam. c. 9.4m). Not visible at ground level.
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: 22 November 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.