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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Crockaunadreenagh, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Crockaunadreenagh, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crockaunadreenagh
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Carn
Latest-edition OS map
Carn
Coordinates
53.25437, -6.47326
SMR number
DU024-005001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the N-facing slope of Saggart hill at a point known as Knockaniller. This is a chambered cairn, circular in form (diam. 13m; H c. 2m) defined by granite kerbstones (diam. 13m; H c. 2m). There is a quantity of quartz in the cairn collapse. An undifferentiated chamber extends NE-SW, narrowing at the N end (L 4m; Wth 1.7m). There are no roofing or sillstones visible. The covering mound has been truncated by a field boundary along the SW. There is furze cover over the S section of site (Kilbride-Jones, 1950, 314; Herity 1974, 256, Mount 1988, 16-17). This site lies to the NE of a passage tombs and a ring-barrow at Knockaniller (DU024-005002-, DU024-005003-).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy

Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 153/1940).

References

Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Kilbride-Jones 1950 Excavations at Lugg, Co. Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 53C, 314-32.

Mount, C. 1988 A passage tomb at Crockaunadreenagh, County Dublin. Trowel, 1, 16-17.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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