Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

Towards the N end and highest point of relatively flat-topped Doomore Mountain. The site overlooks Ballysadare Bay and commands a magnificent outlook in all directions. This is a circular cairn (diam. 21m; H c. 2m) the perimeter of which is under peat-grown heather. Towards the western edge of the flat top of the cairn there is a roughly constructed heap of stones, circular in plan (diam. 7m; H 1.5m). The age and purpose of this feature is uncertain but it may be a 19th-century OS trigonometrical station. Just E of the centre of the cairn there is a 20th-century OS concrete-built trigonometrical pillar. At the NNE a line of four large stones extends towards the centre of the cairn from a point c. 3m inside the perimeter. These stones, which are substantially buried, are of uncertain status but could represent tomb structure, possibly a passage tomb. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 94)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)