Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Castletown, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.29025, -8.96784
- SMR number
- SL011-015002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
At Castletown holy well (see SL011-015001-). There is no trace of a cairn at this location. It is not included in the SMR (1989). The inclusion of a cairn in the RMP (1995) may refer to the rubble that now fills the well.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.