Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Fenagh Beg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fenagh Beg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02181, -7.83630
- SMR number
- LE025-093003-
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 c. 80m from the W side of a N-S ravine. This is an overgrown circular rise (diam. c. 10m; H c. 0.5m) which may be the end of a slight ridge. It is overlain by an E-W field wall. Passage tomb (LE025-093001-) is c. 50m to the NE and the passage tomb (LE025-093002-) is c. 40m to the ENE. (Herity 1974, 277, Le 2)
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
References
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.