Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Moydristan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moydristan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81277, -7.36519
- SMR number
- CV037-049----
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
The monument stands immediately N of a rath (CV037-050----) on a broad ridge in rolling grassland. Largely destroyed, it consists of a S-facing court, roughly semicircular in outline, formed by seven substantial stones, three to the W and four to the E, the tallest 1.45m high. Behind the inner stone at W, which also served as an entrance jamb, a stone 0.8m high is all that now remains of the gallery. A considerable number of prostrate stones of varying size lie in and around what was the gallery area. (Ó Nualláin 1989,116,Cv.42)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.