Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Sroove, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sroove
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95073, -8.48981
- SMR number
- SL046-003001-
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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 a gentle slope, with a view of the Curlew Mountains to N. Excavated in 1973 by Wallace (1974, 23-4) who described 'two roughly concentric rings of orthostats, the diameters of which were 14.5m and 8m', the inner and outer retaining walls for a 'ring-cairn of loosely placed stones' the height of which would have been at least 1.7m. The inner circular area was empty except for a segment in the SE quadrant which contained two short cists (SL046-003002-; SL046-003003-) covered by a thin layer of cairn stones and revetted by a low crescent-shaped setting of small orthostats. The soil under the cairn stones was flecked with charcoal. The site is now evident as a kidney-shaped sod-covered cairn (4.3m x 3m). (Waddell 1990, 133)
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.