Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Knocknarea South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknarea South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circles (Sites of)
- Coordinates
- 54.25793, -8.57488
- SMR number
- SL014-076006-
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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 on a low N-S elevation, on the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, 52m SW of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 31m to SW of a possible passage tomb (MA014-076005-).
An irregular cluster of eight boulders (av. Size c. 1.1m x 0.7m) appear to represent the very ruined remnants of a chamber, now partly concealed by heather. On the W side of the cluster, there are two recumbent split boulders (H 0.5m), aligned NNW−SSE, which may represent the SW side of the chamber. No race of a cairn or enclosing stone circle is evident. This is likely to be one of the monuments on Knocknarae, which was disturbed in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian. (Bergh 1995, 240, site 6). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership.
Attached image:
SL014-076006-_01 Viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.