Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Castleruddery Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleruddery Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99642, -6.63327
- SMR number
- WI021-017001-
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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
One of two unclassified cairns on a gentle W-facing slope overlooking a steeper slope with good views to W. Listed in the RMP (1986) as 'Hut sites - possible'. A subcircular area (diam. c. 13m NW-SE; c. 11m NE-SW) defined by a contiguous ring of large granite stones (L 1.5-1.8m) described by Leask (NMI/OPW Topographical files, undated) as a cairn circle comprising as many as 24 stones. Another unclassified cairn (WI021-017002-) lies 12m to the S. A third unclassified cairn (WI021-017003-) lies c. 140m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.