Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - boundary cairn
Clogh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pile of Stones
- Coordinates
- 54.37218, -8.36539
- SMR number
- SL006-049----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Cairn' in both. Not indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is one of a series of eight cairns (SL006-043----; SL006-044----; SL006-047----; SL006-048----; SL006-049----; SL006-050----; SL006-051----; SL006-063----) which mark the boundary between counties Sligo and Leitrim in inhospitable mountainous terrain. Located at the E apex of the Truskmore plateau overlooking a lower plateau to SE. Subcircular cairn (dims. 9.3m N-S; 7.7m E-W; max. H 0.5m) with three small conical cairns built on it.
Note: This is the same boundary cairn as LE003-026----.
Compiled by Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 24 July 1994
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.