Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Banagher, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.94398, -7.28635
- SMR number
- CV026-005----
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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 tomb, extant in 1965 when the published plan was made (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972) has since been destroyed. It stood alongside a fence on the side of a ridge 200m W of a portal tomb (CV026-006----). A ruined gallery entered from the NNE stood here. A tall stone and low stone E of it, possibly a sill, seemed to mark the gallery entrance. A possible courtstone stood in front of the tall stone. About 1.2m S of the entrance, three stones formed the inner end of the W side of the gallery and two remained on the opposite side. A gable-shaped stone closed the gallery. A set stone stood 2m S of the gallery. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 127-8, No. 27)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.