Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilronan Mountain, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilronan Mountain
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- not idicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06700, -8.12814
- SMR number
- RO002-022----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a knoll of the SE shoulder of Kilronan Mountain. Subcircular mound of stones (diam. 16m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.5-0.8m) protruding from peat with a conical cairn (diam. c. 4m; H c. 3.8m) at the centre.
See the attached general view from the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.