Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Cummeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 54.27476, -8.52511
- SMR number
- SL014-048----
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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
Located 500m S of Cummeen Strand, the inner reaches of Sligo Bay, on an E-facing slope in undulating pasture, formerly part of the estate of Cummeen House. A flat-topped, sheer-sided mound (17m N-S; 19m E-W; H 4m) of earth and stone construction. The mound is largely grass covered though in areas of slippage, detail of stone revetment can be seen. On the W side there is a broad V-shaped depression, forming a path to the top (measuring at the top 4m E-W; 2m N-S; D 1m). Timoney (1984, 324, no. 17) suggests that this and a nearby cairn (SL014-047003-) may be 'nineteenth century demesne monuments on the Ormsby demesne'.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
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
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.