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Cairn - unclassified

Carns (Duke), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Carns (Duke), 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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