What is recorded here
Cairn is a cairn, unclassified in Rathglass (tireragh By., Templeboy North Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. The circular stone and sand mound sits in lowlying pasture near the Sligo Bay shore, measuring twenty-six metres across at its base. Its eastern edge shows quarrying damage, reducing the structure from its original flat-topped form.
Situated in lowlying pasture c. 120m from the S shore of Sligo Bay. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Circular mound (diam. 26m at base, c. 6m at top; H 3.7m at N, 3.4m at S) of stone and sand. The mound may originally have been flat-topped but it has been partly quarried out on the E side.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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