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Cairn - unclassified

Carrigans Upper, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Carrigans Upper, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrigans Upper
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.10913, -8.49894
SMR number
SL033-041----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on top of a ridge with excellent views in all directions. A roughly circular cairn (18m N-S; 20.6m E-W; max. H 1.40m) of grass-covered limestone stones. The cairn has been extensively disturbed at the centre and in the NW quadrant giving it an irregular appearance. Traces of a 'probable fosse' were noted along the N edge during a previous inspection (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly). A large split slab (3.2m x 1.65m; T 0.65m) of weathered limestone lies flat near the NE edge. This stone is known locally as the 'Split Dolmen' or the 'Giant's Grave'. A second smaller slab (0.75m x 0.8m; T 0.2m) protrudes at an angle of c. 45 degrees from the cairn material to E of centre.

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

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

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