Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Aghadrumgowna Or Calf Field, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghadrumgowna Or Calf Field
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.00409, -7.18178
- SMR number
- CV021-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on sloping ground 3km NE of Laragh village. A gallery some 6m long, aligned W-E, is flanked by straight-sided outer-walling. There are two facade-stones to the N of the gallery entrance and one to the S. A lone orthostat beyond the E end of the gallery may be an outer wall stone. The structure is incorporated in a D-shaped cairn 16.5m long, 13m wide and 1.5m high. A tall septal-stone divides the gallery into a short portico and main chamber. The chamber is hidden in the cairn beneath two large slabs, perhaps originally a single roofstone. Two stones in line with the gallery backstone are of uncertain function. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 125-6, No. 25)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.