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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Knocknarea South, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Knocknarea South, 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
Knocknarea South
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.25792, -8.57430
SMR number
SL014-076007-

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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

On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 60m S of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 18m to S of a possible passage tomb (MA014-076005-). There are two cairns (MA014-076008-; MA014-076008-) located 8m to SSW and 30m to SE respectively.
There are scant remains of this possible passage tomb. It was described by Wood-Martin (1888, 111) as ‘…a ruined circle, of which eight stones only, and four of the cist, now remain…’. It is evident now as a loose, irregular cluster of twelve gneiss boulders, with only one boulder set upright (H 0.7m). It may have been disturbed in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian. (Bergh 1995, 241). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership.

Attached image:
SL014-076007-_01 Viewed from S

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 April 2020

References

Bergh, S. 1995 Landscape of the monuments. Stockholm. Bureau for Archaeological Excavation.

Wood-Martin, W.G. 1888 The rude stone monuments of Ireland (Co. Sligo and the island of Achill). Hodges Figgis, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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