Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cummer, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummer
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73829, -6.41669
- SMR number
- WX002-039----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Kinahan (1879-88, 156) a mound of broken and burnt sandstone was just 30m S of a ring-cairn (WX002-044----) at Cummer. Its precise location is unknown, but it was close to a well called the Druids Well at what was then a concentrated settlement and is now developed as a farmyard. It was situated towards the top of a S-facing slope just down from a col between low hills c. 400m to the W and E and c. 40-50m higher than the col.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 January, 2012
References
Kinahan, G.H. 1879-88 On sepulchral and other prehistoric relics. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy C16, 152-63.
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.