Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Pollakeel (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollakeel (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95444, -7.29676
- SMR number
- CV026-066----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on top of Slieve Glah. A trig. station is constructed on top of a grass-covered cairn (diam. 13m; max. H 3m) that has been partly quarried, but there are indications of a small rectangular cist in its upper surface. It was reported by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 May, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.