Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cavan (mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavan (mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93563, -7.91787
- SMR number
- LE032-113----
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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
Reported (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. On the crest of a low, N-S pasture ridge c.90m E of the S-flowing Eslin River. Not recorded by the OS. A low (H 0.7m) grass-covered circular area (diam. 12m) is defined by large stones. The landowner recalled that, in snow, a straight line is visible extending NE from the monument.
An entry in the Schools Manuscripts Collection (Vol. 0215, p. 244) records: ‘In the town-land of Cavan there is a mound or a Cairn and it is believed that there are either treasures or urn's containing human remains buried there.’
See attached images: LE032-113----_1 Snip from digitalglobe aerial imagery (scale: 1:1000, accessed 15-9-2022) and LE032-113----_2 View from S along the E edge of monument on 10/08/2021.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 3 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.