Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Cornaseer, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornaseer
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94070, -7.35706
- SMR number
- CV025-027----
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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
A site briefly described by Richardson c. 1739 has been identified by Paterson, Gaffikin and Davies (1938). Today a scatter of largely prostrate slabs lie alongside the wall of a ruined building. Two at NW are said to have stood opposite each other until 1991. A little to the SE a stone protruding from the wall of the building may be a set stone. Alongside this is a slab, 2m in maximum dimension, now overlying another, said to have been supported by four low stones. Further slabs lie prostrate to the SE. This would seem to have been some form of a megalithic monument but its nature is not now clear. (Paterson, Gaffikin and Davies 1938, 143)
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.