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Cairn - unclassified

Carrignamuck Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Carrignamuck Lower, 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
Carrignamuck Lower
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04914, -6.11650
SMR number
WI019-063----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

Gentle SE facing slope of grazing land. Fine views towards Wicklow Head and out to sea. A large oblong cairn 17m NW-SE x 9m NE-SW, 1.7m high at NW and SE ends, 2.1m high elsewhere. The SW side of the cairn has been clearly dug away, and this is confirmed by local information that stones were drawn from the site for surfacing local lanes. It is likely therefore that the cairn was more circular than is presently the case.
While in some ways the cairn appears to simply represent a large clearance cairn, given its scale, and the fact that it has been partially quarried away, and also given the lack of any further such clearance cairns in any neighbouring fields, it seems most likely that this is a prehistoric burial cairn.

Date of upload: 01 October 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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