Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Carns (duke), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carns (duke)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25322, -8.45664
- SMR number
- SL014-231004-
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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): ‘SW of the cairn [SL014-231----], at a distance of c. 5m from the kerb there are two parallel rows of gneiss boulders, three in each row, placed radially to the cairn. The boulders have a size of c. 0.4m and are set at intervals of 1.5m. The rows are at a distance of 3m from each other and are directed in NE/SW. The outermost pair of stones are set into the bank which is connected to the low platform S of the cairn. The bank curves and ends immediately W of the rows.’ (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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 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.