Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skrine
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56322, -8.18154
- SMR number
- RO041-062002-
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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the SW edge of a N-S karst ridge at the centre of cairn (RO041-062001-). This is a rectangular feature (dims 3m N-W; 2.2m N-S) defined by low stones (dims 0.5-1.45m x 0.1-0.2m; H 0.2m-0.5m) with some gaps. A whitethorn tree has split a lintel, but there are no other lintels present.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See attached document with a plan of the remains.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.