Sheegouna

Also known as:
Si Ghamhnai
Nearest town:
Clonmel (14km SW)
OS reference:
S305317
OS sheet:
67
Latitude:
52° 26' 9.77 N
Longitude:
7° 33' 5.34 W
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Image of Sheegouna (Cairn(s)) by bawn79

The cairn on Sheegouna with the cairn on Slievenamon in the background

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bawn79
bawn79 Mar 27, 2007
Image of Sheegouna (Cairn(s)) by bawn79

One of the areas where it looks like stones have been taken from it.

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bawn79
bawn79 Mar 27, 2007
Image of Sheegouna (Cairn(s)) by bawn79

The cairn on Sheegouna, it seems to be uneven like stones have been taked from it

Image credit: Bawn79
bawn79
bawn79 Mar 27, 2007
Image of Sheegouna (Cairn(s)) by bawn79

This is about 50m from the main cairn, not sure of its age but it looks like a possible megalithic tomb to me, its not marked on the map though.

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bawn79 Mar 27, 2007

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Sheegouna

bawn79
bawn79 Mar 27, 2007

The cairn on Sheegouna is to the north-east of Slievenamon and at a height of about 550m meaning from Slievenamon you have to climb down to it.
Jim O’Connor in the link on the folklore calls it “The fairy-fort of the magic cow”. He also mentions that there was another cairn on Knockahunna to the north. There is no mention of a passage-grave but this cairn to me seemed to be the more likely of the two to have one.
To the south of the cairn is a rock shelter which may be a megalithic tomb, its not recorded, have a look at the pictures and let me know what you think.
The cairn is smaller than the cairn on Slievenamon so about 2m high by 20m diameter.

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bawn79
bawn79
Mar 2007

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