Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Keerglen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keerglen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23557, -9.40120
- SMR number
- MA014-123----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in rough mountainous terrain sloping very steeply down from S to N to the Keerglen River.
This cairn is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a sub-circular heap (3.1m NNW-SSE; 2.9m ENE-WSW; max. H 0.6m) of small and medium sized stones. There is a cashel (MA014-042001-) c. 25m to N and an enclosure (MA014-122----) c. 100m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.