Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cloonee, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonee
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90393, -7.80358
- SMR number
- LE033-049001-
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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 towards the S end of a low N-S ridge. A stone-lined cist (LE033-049002-) containing a bowl food vessel with a cremation was discovered in 1934 during the removal of a cairn (diam. c. 9m) (NMI file). There is a detailed account of the discovery in the Schools Manuscripts from Drumeen School (IFC: Schools Collection, vol. 0220, 183-4). (Waddell 1970, 122; 1990, 105-6; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 118)
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: 9 December 2019
References
Ó Ríordáin, B. and Waddell, J. 1993 The funerary bowls and vases of the Irish Bronze Age. Galway University Press.
Waddell, J. 1970 Irish Bronze Age cists, a survey. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 91-139.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.