Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Muckduff Upper,ballytoole Upper,keadeen,killybeg, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckduff Upper,ballytoole Upper,keadeen,killybeg
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Keadeen Mountain
- Latest-edition OS map
- Keadeen Mountain
- Coordinates
- 52.95105, -6.58174
- SMR number
- WI027-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated immediately to the N of the summit of Keadeen Mountain with very extensive views. Circular cairn (diam. 20m; H 2m) of horizontally laid slabs. Its base is overgrown by peat. Suggested by Herity (1974, 260) to be a passage tomb.
See attached photo courtesy of Robert Hanbidge
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
References
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Cursusunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.