Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Tullaghan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.47126, -8.33002
- SMR number
- LE001-029----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an undulating landscape. This is a grass-covered oval mound (dims of base 28m N-S; 21m E- W; dims of flat summit 15m N-S; 8m E-W; H 2.5m), which is partly quarried at W and may be natural, has a small cairn (dims 4.5m x 2.5m; H 0.3m) on its summit.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.