Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilcoagh East, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoagh East
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02785, -6.57394
- SMR number
- WI015-067----
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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
Set into a gentle W-facing slope of mountain ridge with steep slopes to the N, S and W and extensive views to the S-NW, 450m W of another cairn (WI016-012----). Circular cairn of mica-schist slabs (diam. 15.5m; H 1.2-2m). The base of the cairn is covered in peat.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.