Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Rathgran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14206, -8.60161
- SMR number
- SL025-165001-
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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 wet pasture, c. 8m to NE of a stream. A kidney-shaped mound (11.2m N-S; 10.4m E-W; H 0.6m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil with the opening facing NE. Two burnt spreads (SL025-165002-; SL025-165003-) lie c. 30m to SSE and c. 50m to SSE respectively. There is a circular enclosure (SL025-130----) c. 30m to NW and a moated site (SL025-131----) c. 30m to NNE, in the same field.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.