Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Killavil, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavil
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03525, -8.55308
- SMR number
- SL039-153----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Not listed in either the SMR (1989) or the RMP (1995). In rolling pasture, on an E-facing slope. An oval partially grass-covered cairn (5.6m N-S; 4.1m E-W; H 1.4m) of medium-sized limestone stones. According to local information, the cairn was used as a Mass-rock in penal times. It is likely that this dates to the post-1700 AD period.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 05 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.