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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25792, -8.57430
- SMR number
- SL014-076007-
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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
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.