Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Aghadrumcarn, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghadrumcarn
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.95236, -7.87341
- SMR number
- LE032-017----
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
Located at the crest of the S-facing slope at the S end of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This cairn is depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and it is described as a ‘Carn’ only on the 1945 revision. It is a grass and tree-covered subcircular earth and stone mound (dims 15.5m E-W; 11m N-S; max. H 1.9m), which is truncated slightly by a field wall at S, although the wall curves S slightly in an attempt to avoid it.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 5 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Memorial stone1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.