Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Slievemore, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievemore
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98797, -10.13078
- SMR number
- MA042-049001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, heather-covered upland bog, located on the lower SW-facing slope of a high ridge in NW of Achill Island. There is an area of worked bog c. 60m to S.
This consists of a loose, oval heap of medium and large-sized stones (3m N−S; 2m E−W; H c. 0.5m), with a shallow central depression. The perimeter is submerged in heather, and the central hollow is grass-grown. There a possible enclosure (MA042-049002-) 1.8m to N.
Image:
MA042-049001_01.jpg: Cairn viewed from S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.