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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tornant Upper
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.04304, -6.69669
SMR number
WI015-036----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Situated on the NE edge of a ridge (running E-W) with extensive views over the surrounding undulating terrain. Circular mound (diam. 18.6m; H 1.6m) with a flat-bottomed, partly artificial gully immediately to the W, and a shallow fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.5m) at the SE. There is a hollow (diam. 1.5m; D 0.5m) at the top of the mound. A decorated stone, now in the NMI, is reputed to have come from this site. (Price 1953, 200; Shee-Twohig 1981, 225-6)

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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1958).

References

Shee Twohig, E. 1981 The Megalithic Art of Western Europe. Oxford, Clarendon Press

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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