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Cairn - boundary cairn

Cabragh (Leyny By.),Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - boundary cairn, Cabragh, Gortakeeran, 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
Cabragh (Leyny By.),Gortakeeran
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Piles of Stones
Coordinates
54.18812, -8.67013
SMR number
SL019-171001-

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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

Listed in the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified as 'Cairn Possible'. On the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. This is the most northerly of 10 cairns (see also: SL019-171002-; SL019-172----; SL025-147----; SL025-147001-; SL025-147002-; SL025-147003-; SL025-147004-; SL025-147005-; SL025-147006-) that mark a long linear length of the townland boundary between Cabragh and Gortakeeran. None of the ten are marked of the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are no remains of this cairn, in all probability post-1700 AD in date, now visible.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC

Date of upload: 13 December 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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