Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Crockaunadreenagh, County Dublin, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.