What is recorded here
Cairn is a cairn, unclassified in Portinch, County Sligo, Ireland. It measures 4.5 metres across and 1.65 metres high, with steep sides and a rounded top. A north-south field boundary crosses the structure in pasture on a slight rise. A burial ground lies about 15 metres to the southeast.
In pasture, on a slight rise. A cairn (diam. 4.5m; H 1.65m), with steep sides and a rounded top, is crossed by a N-S field boundary. A burial ground (SL033-212----) lies c. 15m to SE.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
A Neolithic cairn; its proximity to a burial ground suggests ritual or funerary significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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