Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Caltragh (tireragh By., Rathmacurkey Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh (tireragh By., Rathmacurkey Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24681, -8.96863
- SMR number
- SL011-140----
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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
In improved pasture, in the valley bottom of the Owenykeevan River, on the E bank of the river.
According to local tradition, there was a burial ground in this field, from which the townland derived its name. The stones marking the graves were removed during land reclamation, and were incorporated into a long rock pile which forms a substantial roughly N-S field division at the E of the field. There is no visible trace of the burial ground, and has not been possible to identify any of the displaced grave-markers.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.