Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Gortnacart Glebe, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacart Glebe
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.75745, -8.34867
- SMR number
- DG074-018----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A supposed court tomb at Upper Gortnacart recte Gortnacart Glebe (L. McGill 1964; P.J. McGill 1970) consists of a setting of around a dozen stones protruding above bog-grown land. These stones describe an incomplete oval measuring 4m N-S by 3m E-W. One of the stones is 1m high, and another is 0.5m high. The rest rise just above the surface. The nature of this ancient feature is uncertain.
L. McGill 1964, 63; P.J. McGill 1970, 6.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.