Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballure, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballure
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.26738, -8.39372
- SMR number
- SL015-119----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a rise in an undulationg landscape. A circular, grass-covered cairn (diam. 8.5m; H 0.5-1m) has an old, grass-covered quarry (diam. 5m; D 0.8-1m) dug into its centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 March, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.