What is recorded here

Cairn is a cairn (unclassified) in Glennaskagh, gurtnapisha, County Tipperary, Ireland. Con Manning identified the sub-oval stone mound, which measures 14 metres northeast-southwest and 9.5 metres northwest-southeast, at the 500-metre spot-height of Knockahunna. A random-rubble cabin with an iron door now sits on top of the mound, while cut metal poles and concrete bases mark the remains of television masts erected in the 1980s.

In heather with forestry to NW, at 500m spot-height of Knockahunna. Cairn identified by Con Manning (ASI files 15.05.1995). Sub-oval mound of stones (dims. 14m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SE; max. H 1.4m) truncated by field boundary to NW and by trackway to SE. Cabin (2.2m NE-SW; 2.0m NW-SE; H 1.45m) constructed on top is of random rubble with coarse concrete mortar and closed by iron door to SE. Iron box to NW may have housed a battery. Various sawn off metal poles protrude from concrete bases at ESE and around the NW-side indicate the remains of television masts erected c. 1980s. Cairn (TS071-021----) on Sheegounna and cairn (TS078-001----) on Slievenamon are located c. 1km to SSE and c. 2km SSW respectively. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 30 September 2014

A sub-oval cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age. Its truncated state suggests historical disturbance, but it represents a common funerary or ritual monument type in the region.

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