Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Gorteenachurry, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenachurry
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.38661, -8.19564
- SMR number
- LE004-025----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the N edge of a high plateau overlooking the Glenaniff valley to the N and buried in c. 1m of peat. A single flat slab (dims 1.7m x 1m; T 0.4m) rests on a buried stone pile within a subrectangular cairn (dims 20.5m NNE-SSW; 8m WNW-ESE; H c. 1m). No kerbstones can be distinguished.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Building1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tomb1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.