Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Farranyharpy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranyharpy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone circle Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.23199, -8.74658
- SMR number
- SL018-051001-
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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
This monument was first shown on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Seven erect and ten prostate stones here were taken by the surveyors to be the remains of a stone circle. This does not seem to be a very likely interpretation but the nature of the structure cannot be decided in its present condition. A slab, 1.50m in maximum dimension, resting on two of the uprights and on a prostate stone was taken to be one of the "Giant's Graves".
O Nualláin, S. (1989) Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland V: County Sligo, p. 97; no. 13.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.