Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Boihy,cloonaquin,gortnaskeagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boihy,cloonaquin,gortnaskeagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28553, -8.23643
- SMR number
- LE011-113----
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
Located at the peak at the SW end of the summit ridge (L c. 500m NE-SW) of Benbo Mountain at a point where three townlands meet. A circular cairn (diam. 6m; H 0.2m) is protruding through peat with a conical cairn (diam. 2.5m; H 1m) built on top of it as a boundary cairn. Cairn (LE011-114----) is further down the SW-facing slope of the ridge, c. 670m to the SW.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassified1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.