Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Portinch, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portinch
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09928, -8.57714
- SMR number
- SL033-212----
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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
Human remains, aligned E-W, which had been exposed on the N side of a cut-in lane for c. 20 years, were inspected in 1990 by NMI personnel and remain in situ (NMI). There were approximatley five burials exposed in an area c. 25m long (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). A cairn (SL033-212001-) lies c. 15m to NW. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 513)
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
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Egan, U., Byrne, E., Sleeman, M. 2005 Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo, Vol. 1: South Sligo. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.