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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Mullaghfarna,Carrowkeel (Tirerrill By., Templevanny ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Mullaghfarna, Carrowkeel, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mullaghfarna,Carrowkeel (Tirerrill By., Templevanny ED)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Grave
Coordinates
54.05809, -8.36486
SMR number
SL040-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a little knoll in rocky pasture at the foot of the E flank of the Bricklieve Mountains. This is a gallery (L 6.3m; Wth 2m at front, 0.8m at rear) entered between two jambs at the NW, the more easterly of which is flanked by a single courtstone. There are three stones on the W side of the gallery and four on the E and it is closed by a backstone the top of which has been broken off and now lies on the ground. The gallery contains grass-grown fill which reaches to the level of the sidestones and this extends beyond the front of the monument for about 1.5m. A slab, apparently a roofstone, rests on this fill at the back of the gallery. A stone fence runs E-W across the middle of the gallery. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 75, no. 119)

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 and plan from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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