Mapviewer from the Heritage Service - you can check your townland and see what lies beneath.
Have fun.
http://webgis.archaeology.ie/Nationa...ts/FlexViewer/
Mapviewer from the Heritage Service - you can check your townland and see what lies beneath.
Have fun.
http://webgis.archaeology.ie/Nationa...ts/FlexViewer/
Last edited by Ah Well; 07-03-2012 at 06:48 PM.
Fantastic service, I think I'm going to spend ages on it. Thanks cactus..
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Does anyone know if a monument isn't on the mapviewer, does that mean it isn't listed?
Well don't know if it's technically a cairn but came across what looks like some old burial structure. Most of it seems to be in the ground and the only reason I spotted it was because a limestone slab covering it seems to have hald fallen in. Otherwise it would have just appeared as a mound on the ground. The best way I can describe it is if you were looking down directly from the sky, it would look like a small doorway.
Hmm fulacht fias are very common around the country and often appear as a raised bank in a horseshoe shape or indeed are often ploughed out and can appear as dark patches in the soil with burnt bits of stone surfacing when the ground is ploughed.
Here's a good example adjoining Drombeg Stone Circle, Drombeg, Co. Cork. I assume this particular one was the subject of an archaeological excavation at some point in time
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It has a horse shoe shaped mound, covered in moss and pine needles and what looks like a flat slab which fell in allowing the inside stone work to become visible. That's the only reason I noticed it, otherwise it would have looked like raised earth.
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