Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Carrownaleck, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaleck
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- nOT INDICATED
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghmurthail
- Coordinates
- 54.11643, -8.73932
- SMR number
- SL032-003----
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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 rolling pasture within 100m of the River Moy. Three orthostats stand on an oval stony mound (11.7m E-W; 7.7m N-S; H 0.6m). Two of the orthostats, both low stones, are opposite each other close to the middle of the mound and seem to represent a gallery aligned approximately E-W. Immediately E of these the tops of some small stones are exposed at the surface but their status is unclear. Some 2.5m to the W of the opposed orthostats there is a tall example set transversely to the line of the presumed gallery, possibly a backstone. There are a number of displaced stones on the mound. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 61, no. 98)
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.