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Cairn - unclassified

Cummeen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Cummeen, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cummeen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Tumulus
Coordinates
54.27483, -8.52703
SMR number
SL014-047003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Within an enclosure (SL014-147002-) at the centre of an embanked enclosure (SL014-047001-). This cairn consists of a stone-built conical mound (diam. 7m; H 2.5m), constructed of unshaped field stones of large (L 0.44m; Wth 0.25m) to medium (L 0.2m; Wth 0.15m) size. It is partly covered with earth, moss and brambles. Timoney (1984, 324, no. 16) suggests that this and a nearby possible barrow (SL014-048----) may be 'nineteenth century demesne monuments on the Ormsby demesne'.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of revised upload: 8 December 2017

References

Timoney, M.A. 1984 Earthen burial sites on the Carrowmore peninsula, Co. Sligo. In G. Burenhult, The archaeology of Carrowmore. Stockholm, 319-25.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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