Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Conor'S Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conor'S Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.41726, -8.51810
- SMR number
- SL002-050----
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 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Among the sand dunes on Conor's Island. Remains of a degraded, low, triangular-shaped cairn measuring 6.10m (NW side) by 6.50m (E side) by 6.90m (SW side). It survives to a height of c. 0.40m and the sides appear to be slightly concave. Morphological comparisons have been made with the 'treudd' Iron Age graves of Scandanavian (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney).
Images (taken on 28th August 2017):
SL002-050----_01 Cairn viewed from NW
SL002-050----_02 Cairn viewed from SE
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 22 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.