Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knocknarea South, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.