Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Graigue, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24475, -8.52071
- SMR number
- SL014-209055-
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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
Petrie (Stokes 1867, 249) noted that the site was disturbed in 1837 and consisted of twenty stones, but no chamber. Five boulders now form a slight curve (L c. 7m) (ACP V203/93-4; Herity 1974, 269, SL 64; Kitchin 1983, 172; Bergh 1995, 197, Carrowmore 47).
This is a National Monument in State care (No. 153).
Date of upload: 15 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.