Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Drumerkillew, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumerkillew
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.02980, -7.13179
- SMR number
- CV022-017----
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
There is no trace of a structure at the site now. According to the OS Memoirs for County Cavan there was a 'Giant's Grave' 40 feet(c. 12.2m) long and 12 feet (c. 3.65m) wide narrowing to 4 feet (c. 1.2m) here in the 1830s. This may have been a megalithic tomb. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 138, No. 10; OS Memoir, Kildrumsherdan parish, County Cavan)
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.