Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Castlerock Or Castlecarragh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlerock Or Castlecarragh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed
- Coordinates
- 54.07200, -8.86235
- SMR number
- SL031-040----
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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
On rocky pasture at the edge of a plateau below the slopes of the Ox Mountains and commanding an extensive outlook to the S. A gallery (L 4.8m; Wth 1.6-2.6m) is preceded at the E by two stones representing the S arm of a court. There are three prostrate stones immediately N of the outer of the two courtstones. Just E of these there is a small limekiln (SL031-040001-) in a field fence that extends N-S about 5m in front of the gallery. Two jambs mark the entrance to the gallery and another pair divide it into two chambers. The gallery sides, each of five orthostats, and the backstone are in place. Just outside the N side of the gallery there is a large prostrate slab. There are slight traces of mound at the site most obviously to the N of the gallery. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 60, no. 96)
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)
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.