Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Glencap Commons Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencap Commons Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15785, -6.15189
- SMR number
- WI007-070001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 northern spur of the Great Sugarloaf Mountain. Two cairns; the smaller, more northerly (designated WI007-070----) is very low (diam. 7m), the larger (diam. 13-15m; H 1.5m), just to the S (designated WI007-070001-) has a hollow at the centre and a block of white quartz is visible. (Information c. Manning and P. Neary)
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: 20 September 2010 G. Conroy.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.