Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Carns (Duke), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carns (Duke)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25361, -8.45629
- SMR number
- SL014-231001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The following description of the monument has been published by Bergh (1995, 233): ‘Due N of the cairn [SL014-231----], there is a stone packing c..7m long and 3.5m wide extending northwards away from the cairn. The height of the packing is c.0.35m. On the northern part of this packing there is a gneiss boulder, measuring c..2.0 x 1.5 x 1.2m, lying on its long side. From its present position and shape it cannot be excluded that it once was set standing on its short end.’ (Bergh 1995, 233; Fig. 31, 235)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 May 2016
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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.