Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Slievethoul, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievethoul
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25406, -6.47366
- SMR number
- DU024-005002-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the N-facing slope of Saggart Hill at a point known as Knockaniller. This large kerbed cairn lies immediately to the S of another passage tomb (DU024-005001-). It is circular in form and round-topped (diam. c. 40m; H c. 5m). Now partly fern-covered with deep machine tracks running across the top. A townland boundary runs between it and passage tomb to the N. (Herity 1974, 256; Herity 2001, 27-29).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
References
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
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.