Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Rossard,kyle (scarawalsh By.),mandoran, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossard,kyle (scarawalsh By.),mandoran
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61786, -6.72752
- SMR number
- WX009-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated just off the summit of Black Rock Mountain. Th is is an oblong cairn (dims 18.5m NE-SW; 7.3m NW-SE; H 1.6-2m) composed of large granite boulders (dims c. 1.5m x 0.5m x 0.5m). It may have been erected to mark a boundary between townlands. The cairns (WX009-011001-, WX009-011002-) are c. 30m to the SW.
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: 5 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.