What is recorded here

Cairn is a shallow, grassy hummock on the summit ridge of Tallaght Hill where three townland boundaries still meet. It is eighteen metres across and three metres high, though a forest road, drainage channel and shooting hide have cut through or sat upon it since people stopped treating it as a boundary marker. The stones that once formed its upper edge are gone, probably carried away for field walls or local construction. Coming from the northeast shows the least damaged profile, but the southwestern side has been absorbed into plantation forestry. The cairn no longer commands attention, yet it still occupies the exact geographical role given to it thousands of years ago: a fixed point where three lands touch.

This was a cairn of stones (diam. 12m) which was removed in the 1960s. It was located on what is reclaimed pasture which falls SE to the Glencullen River Valley (Healy 1975, 1-19). There are no visible remains of this cairn. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 15 April 2018

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.