Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Castleteheen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleteheen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75084, -8.38332
- SMR number
- RO027-017008-
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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
On the crest of a slight NW-SE ridge. There is a subrectangular cairn (dims 4.2m N-S; 2m E-W; H 0.3m), probably a clearance cairn, at the centre of rath (RO027-017001-) with the standing stone (RO027-017005-) just to its E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.