Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Ballysadare, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysadare
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21217, -8.50379
- SMR number
- SL020-163----
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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
This feature, which is indicated only on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, was in an area of gently rolling lowland. It would appear to have been obliterated during railway construction in the 19th century. On the map it is indicated as a feature of oval outline (c. 27m x 15m) with its long axis aligned NE-SW. It is possible that this was some form of long mound or cairn and if so could have contained a court tomb or portal tomb. Wood-Martin (1887-8, 261-2; 1888, 199-200) refers to its destruction but apparently had no information as to its nature. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 97, no. 15)
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
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.