Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Doonaveeragh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonaveeragh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.05296, -8.36651
- SMR number
- SL040-100----
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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
This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). On the top of Doonaveeragh, in the Bricklieve Mountains. A grass-covered conical cairn (diam. 9.1m x 11.4m; H 2m); two possible kerbstones are visible at SW. There is a Neolithic settlement (SL040-108----) on the lower ground to N. A possible passage tomb (SL040-099----) lies c. 200m to NNW.
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 a plan and sections of the monument (surveyed 1995).
Date of upload: 27 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.