Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Tarahill, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tarahill
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 52.69906, -6.21773
- SMR number
- WX007-014----
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
Marked as a cairn on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the broad summit of Tara Hill, which John O'Donovan, writing c. 1840, considered to be the Teamhair Brogha Nia of early Ireland (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 6). The cairn (dims. c. 17m N-S; c. 16m; max. H 1.5m at E) is largely covered with grass and furze, but there is a trig. station at the centre and a a quarry diam. 4m; D 0.5m) towards the SE edge.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 15 March 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.