Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Tawnatruffaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnatruffaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19723, -8.92588
- SMR number
- SL017-067----
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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 shallow NW-facing slope at the mouth of the Fiddangarode valley. Large, subcircular, originally round-topped mound (21m N-S; 15.3m E-W; max H 2.25m). At the base of the mound from SE-S-NW is a long, low field clearance cairn.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.