Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Alteen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alteen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19979, -8.06184
- SMR number
- LE016-021----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated above the valley of a stream on the S side at the point where it turns from SW-NE to NE-SW and c. 30m above a waterfall (H c. 30m). This is an oval cairn (dims 4.1m E-W; 3.2m N-S; H 0.3m at W to 0.7m at E) of fist-sized stones with a thin grass covering thought locally to be left over from the construction of houses in a little N-S valley immediately to N, which is quite likely.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.