Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carricknahorna West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknahorna West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 54.03125, -8.37393
- SMR number
- SL040-105----
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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
In heather-covered rough grazing, in the centre of a circular flat-topped spur of a ridge in the Bricklieve Mountains. The ground drops steeply into an upland valley to N and E and a narrow ravine separates the spur from rising ground to W where a cashel (SL040-154----) is located c. 50m to WSW. Breaks in the surrounding high ridges give views ENE to Lough Arrow, to S and on a distant ridge to N, two of the Carrowkeel passage tombs are visible. A roughly circular cairn of stones (7.5m N-S; 9.6m E-W; H 1.25m) located off-centre to N within a circular enclosure (SL040-105001-). The cairn is largely sod-covered and very dilapidated. It has been partially quarried out at NW and as a result presents an irregular, slumped profile. A ruined field boundary wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.25m), visible as a linear heather-covered rise, bisects the enclosure on an E-W axis and clips the S edge of the cairn. From the base of the cairn the ground slopes down gently to the edge of the enclosure N-E.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.