Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - boundary cairn
Shesknan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shesknan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pile of stones
- Coordinates
- 54.39654, -8.35931
- SMR number
- LE003-012----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the summit of a ridge running N from Truskmore. Marked only on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (Leitrim 003) on the county boundary with Sligo where it is described in italic lettering as a 'Ple of Stones'. This is a small modern pile of stones (diam. 1.5m, H 0.5m), and it is the same as (SL006-044----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore,
Date of revised upload: 22 December 2015
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.