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
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn-na-Cluiche
- Coordinates
- 53.54971, -9.24487
- SMR number
- MA121-089----
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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
In low-lying field of good pasture with extensive karst and scrub to the N. 500m W is cairn (MA121-085001-). Oval-shaped cairn (diam. 45m N-S; H 4m) composed of loose stone, which covered cist (MA121-089001-). Aldridge (1960, unpub. notes) notes that much of the cairn material was removed for walling.
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. 34.
Date of upload: 7 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.