Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cloondrihara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloondrihara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.12916, -8.70199
- SMR number
- SL025-085----
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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 gently undulating pasture. A linear sod-covered mound (7.5m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW; H 0.55m) incorporating some irregularly shaped stones. Though named 'Giants Grave' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map there is insufficient evidence to classify it as a megalithic structure (Ó Nualláin 1989, 98, no. 20). There is an enclosure (SL025-086----) c. 80m to SE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.