Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In pasture 190m S of the townland boundary with Tankardstown North. Tankardstown Church (LI047-011001-) and graveyard (LI047-011002-) lie 115m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Pit excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/4/1 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘A shallow pit measuring 0.66m x 0.62m x 0.12m deep, the remains are probably those of a hearth site’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 30 August 2021
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.