
What is recorded here
Four millennia of rain and forgetting have not erased the fact that this is a border marker. It still stands at the junction of three townlands on Tallaght Hill, a rounded lump of stone and earth that people once built deliberately and others have since cut, drained, roaded and shot from. What is left is enough to show that the place was never ordinary. The loss is not mystery; it is accountability.
Situated S of the junction of the R114 and Ballinascorney Road, located in poor upland pasture in an area of rock outcrop. A cairn, grass covered and irregular in plan (7.8m E-W; 5m N-S; H 3m).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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