Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cummeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle
- Coordinates
- 54.27696, -8.52666
- SMR number
- SL014-045001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At a court tomb (SL014-045----). Ó Nualláin (1989, 30) notes that the centre-court tomb stands within ‘a roughly circular embanked enclosure which rises to a maximum height of about 2m. The enclosure appears to be of later construction than the tomb and stones protruding from the bank suggests that spoil from the megalithic cairn may have been utilised in the construction of the bank.'
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 September 2019
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1989 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 5, Co. Sligo. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.