Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Drumeltan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumeltan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.02380, -7.10374
- SMR number
- CV022-016001-
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
Marked 'Giant's Grave' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Shown situated within a tree plantation on OS 1913 ed. An earlier report (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 139, No. 11) recorded that the site was then represented by a trench (L 8m; Wth 3m; D 1m) which has since been infilled. The nature of the site is uncertain, but local information would suggest it may have been a souterrain. Not visible at ground level.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.