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Cairn - burial cairn

Carrowmore (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - burial cairn, Carrowmore, 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
Carrowmore (Carbury By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.24456, -8.51650
SMR number
SL014-209064-

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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

Wood-Martin (1888, 63-4) assigned it the number 36A. Wood-Martin states: 'A few paces to the north-east of No. 36 [SL014-209068-] are traces of a large cairn not noted by Petrie. The tenant stated that when quarrying in it for stones he turned up a quantity of bones and charcoal . . . traces of a surrounding circle of stones can still be observed.' There are no visible remains of this monument. (Bergh 1995, 195, Carrowmore 36A)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 28 January 2014

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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