Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Grange, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.39670, -8.53877
- SMR number
- SL005-174----
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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
Situated on a slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Circular flat-topped mound (diam. top 7m; diam. base 17m; H 0.65-0.85m) of earth and rubble limestone with gently sloping sides. There is no fosse visible at ground level. The edge of the mound has been obscured W-E by modern dumps of field clearance rubble rock. The summit of the mound undulates irregularly and slopes gently facing S slopes slightly facing S.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.