Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Middletown, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middletown
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.88064, -7.47879
- SMR number
- CV030-031----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated 350m E of White Lough on undulating ground. This small chamber, about 2m long, lacks a backstone. There are two portal-stones 0.8m apart at SSE, each about 1.7m high. The chamber sides are of single stones, that at E 1.5m high and the other somewhat lower. Just N of the western one there is a small set stone of uncertain function. A roofstone rests in a sloping position on the western portal-stone and both sidestones. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 130, No. 30)
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.