Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Bellafarney, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.