Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Tornant Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tornant Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04336, -6.69684
- SMR number
- WI015-092----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In 1956, during the bulldozing at a mound as part of land improvement works, the human skeleton of a middle aged, adult male was discovered. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 435)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 July 2012
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1958).
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.