Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knock North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn-an-Aonfir
- Coordinates
- 53.54892, -9.25461
- SMR number
- MA121-085001-
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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
On the summit of a low hill, in pasture. S of extensive area of hazel and scrub, 500m W of cairn (MA121-089----). Poorly preserved remains of an oval-shaped cairn (diam. 18m N-S; H 1m) delimited by 43 boulders representing kerbing. Covered cist (MA121-085002-); investigated by Wilde, (1872, 224). Interior heavily overgrown.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 33.
Date of upload: 7 January 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1872 Lough Corrib: its shores and islands with notices of Lough Mask. 2nd ed. Dublin. McGlashan and Gill.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.