Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Carricknagat (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknagat (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat House
- Coordinates
- 54.18818, -8.39392
- SMR number
- SL021-066002-
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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
In front of the doorway of the sweathouse (SL021-066001-) is a small courtyard type feature (2.24m N-S; 1.5m E-W) defined on W, E and N sides by upright contiguous slabs that were considered by Weir (1979, 196) to form part of a megalithic tomb but this is most unlikely. There are three slabs on the W side, four on the E side and a single large slab defining the N side with an entrance gap (Wth 0.8m) at NE.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.