Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Carrownacreevy (tireragh By., Aughris Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownacreevy (tireragh By., Aughris Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.24852, -8.76875
- SMR number
- SL012-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Recorded by Ó Nualláin (1989, 27) as follows: 'This destroyed monument was first shown on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stood on flat pasture land about 2.5km to the NW of Skreen village. Rock outcrops occur 500m to the S. On our initial visit to this site in 1951 we recorded a mound about about 20m in length aligned E-W. About a dozen stones, many apparently in situ, protruded from the mound. Two of these, at the E, seemed to have been a pair of jambs. The monument had been completely removed by the time we returned to the site in 1963 and its stones lay against a nearby fence. It must remain unclassified but its length and the presence of two likely jambs at the E suggest it may have been a court-tomb.'
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.