Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Kilrusheighter, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrusheighter
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26166, -8.79168
- SMR number
- SL012-126----
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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 on a low round hillock. Remains comprise traces of a round mound (c. 20m N-S by 14m E-W for surviving section). Only half of mound survives to W of fence. Two set stones, 2m apart, may represent the last vestiges of a chamber. The possibility that this might be the remains of a passage tomb cannot be excluded.
Compiled by: Eamon Cody
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.