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Cairn - unclassified

Bellafarney, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Bellafarney, 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
Bellafarney
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.22479, -8.92534
SMR number
SL017-099----

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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

In pasture, on the level top of a broad, low hill which forms a virtual island of elevated ground surrounded at W–S by lowlying wet, boggy ground. Located at the angle of two drystone field walls, in the SE corner of a small rectangular field. Roughly circular, flat-topped mound (diam. overall 5m, top 3m; H 0.6m) of stones. There is a slightly raised rim around the perimeter on the top of the cairn. The cairn is dense, compact and sod-covered. It appears to straddle a slight rise. The E side is bordered by a NNW–SSE drystone field wall and the S side by a NE–SW field wall. The nature of this cairn is unclear. It may simply be a field clearance cairn which has accumulated against the angle of the two field walls. It could be the remains of a structure, limekiln, or possibly a hut site. It may be contemporary with a structure (SL017-098001-) and enclosure (SL017-098002-) located 10m to NW in the same field.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 11 March 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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