Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Rathglass (tireragh By., Templeboy North Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathglass (tireragh By., Templeboy North Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.25776, -8.79885
- SMR number
- SL012-015----
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Shown on 4 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
Situated in lowlying pasture c. 120m from the S shore of Sligo Bay. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Circular mound (diam. 26m at base, c. 6m at top; H 3.7m at N, 3.4m at S) of stone and sand. The mound may originally have been flat-topped but it has been partly quarried out on the E side.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.