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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Knocknashee Common, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Knocknashee Common, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knocknashee Common
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.11989, -8.67899
SMR number
SL032-013002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Close to the N end of flat-topped Knocknashee Mountain, commanding an extensive outlook and within a hillfort (SL032-013001-). This is a circular, flat-topped cairn (diam. 28m; H c. 2.5m) at or about the centre of which a roofed chamber (L 1.7m N-S; Wth 1.15m E-W; H 1.1m) is exposed. Single stones form the sides and ends of the chamber, a single slab serves as a floorstone and a single large slab roofs the structure. A piece has been broken from the top of the N end-stone and the resultant gap now permits access to the chamber. A rough wall has been built along the eastern side of the flat top of the cairn. This possible passage tomb lies at the N limit of the possible Neolithic settlement (SL032-013004-). Another possible passage tomb (SL032-013003-) lies c. 120m to NE.

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).

Attached image:
SL032-013002_01.JPG Viewed from NW

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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