Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Mount Town, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount Town
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12342, -8.30526
- SMR number
- SL034-065----
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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 rough pasture, on the N side of a ridge and on the W side of a road. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular pile of stones (diam. c. 40m), c. 100m SSW of a mound barrow (SL034-064----). There are no visible remains of the cairn. According to local information, the level of the field was previously c. 1.5m higher but was subsequently lowered due to quarrying and large boulders encountered during the quarrying are piled against the adjacent field boundary.
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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.