Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Cloghoge Lower, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghoge Lower
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06418, -8.38271
- SMR number
- SL040-228----
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 included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) with the classification 'Cairn(s). On a slope near the bottom of a narrow valley. Two small conical cairns covered with grass. According to landowner these are clearance cairns made from stones collected by himself and his father and then planted with grass seeds. These cairns are obviously post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 06 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.