Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Tanrego West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tanrego West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromleac
- Coordinates
- 54.22947, -8.61467
- SMR number
- SL019-063----
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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 the S edge of a low rise in rolling pasture near the shoreline of Ballysadare bay. Shown on the 1837 OS map as 'Cromleac' and on the 1913 edition as ' Cromlech'. This megalithic structure consists of six massive irregular-shaped boulders (average size: L 2.4m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.8m) enclosing a roughly pennanular space (c. 4.8m N-S by c. 4m E-W) open to S. Some of the boulders appear to rest on a slight pedestal of soil and stones. The date and significance of this arrangement of stones is unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.