Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Treanmore (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanmore (corran By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.05763, -8.42065
- SMR number
- SL040-013----
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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 summit of Sheecor, with commanding views and overlooking Lough Labe to E. A sod-covered oval flat-topped cairn (13m x 11.2m; max. H 1.2m) of small to medium sized limestone stones; the sides slope gently. There is a trigonometrical station on top of the cairn. This has been listed as a possible passage tomb (Ó Nualláin 1989, 84).
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).
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of revision: 10 August 2010
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.