Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kye, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kye
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.85517, -8.14772
- SMR number
- RO017-123001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the flat, low-lying landscape of a reclaimed lake, c. 25m SE of Pollacat Well. Oval grass-covered cairn (dims 36m N-S; 28.5m E-W; H 1.6-1.75m) with a level upper surface (dims 23m N-S; 14.5m E-W). Immediately to the SE is a second cairn (RO017-123002-), and earthwork (RO017-124----) is c. 90m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.