Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Glennawoo, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennawoo
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06675, -8.90137
- SMR number
- SL036-010----
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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 the SE slopes of the Ox Mountains overlooking the Lough Talt River to the NE. A massive slab (3.6m x 2.9m; T 1-1.5m) rests in a more or less horizontal position on a few courses of drystone-walling (H 0.7m) under its perimeter at E and W. The whole structure sits in a slight hollow. There was a small quarry alongside the site in the 1960s but this has been filled in and the land reclaimed. This work was probably the source of stones now piled against the structure. The age and function of this feature is not known.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.