Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Aghaway, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghaway
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.02028, -7.18360
- SMR number
- CV021-004----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is a grassy mound 15m long NW-SE, 5m wide NE-SW and 0.75m high. A block of stone, 1.5m in maximum dimension, lies at the SE corner of the mound and the tops of a number of stones protrude above its surface. The nature of the feature is uncertain. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 138, No. 7)
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.