Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carns (duke), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carns (duke)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25335, -8.45667
- SMR number
- SL014-231002-
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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
The following description of the monument has been published by Bergh (1995, 233): ‘Nearly due W, and very close to the cairn [SL014-231----], there is a small, slightly irregular cairn with a largest diameter of c. 6m and a height of c. 0.6m. This cairn is mainly constructed by gneiss fieldstones with a size of 0.1-0.4m. Nearly due E. of the cairn, and 7m from base of the cairn, there is a stone packing measuring 3 x 3m. It seems to consist of only a single layer of stones with a size of 0.2-0.3m.’ (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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.