Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Cams, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cams
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.09445, -8.42325
- SMR number
- SL034-099----
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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
On rocky pasture about 4km W of the N end of Lough Arrow. Scant structural remains of a tomb survive in a low, poorly defined oval mound (19m NE-SW; max. 12m NW-SE). Two adjoining sidestones (combined length 4m) and a jamb remain of the more southerly side of a gallery aligned NE-SW. The jamb is at the NE end of the line described by the two sidestones and just 1m beyond the opposite end there is a prostrate slab, possibly a fallen backstone. Between this and the line of stones there is an upright stone which does not appear to be in situ. There are also some prostrate stones at the site. Some 2m E of the jamb a depression in the mound may mark the position of a court. 'Toberstarley' holy well (SL034-100001-) lies c. 50m to S. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 62, no. 100)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.