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Cairn - unclassified

Knocknarea South, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, 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
54.25776, -8.57433
SMR number
SL014-076008-

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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 75m S of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-). There is a possible passage tomb (MA014-076007-) 8m to NNE, and a cairn (MA014-076009-) 26m to SE.
This is evident as a low, oval grass-covered rise (4.5m N−S; 4m E−W; 0.25m), which appears to be composed primarily of fragmentary limestone. It is defined on its perimeter by a barely discernible fosse. A block of white quartzite (0.35m x 0.15m), which does not occur naturally on Knocknarae, is located on the perimeter at E. (Bergh 1995, 241, site 8). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 6 April 2020

References

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

Nearby in the register

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

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