Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Slievethoul, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievethoul
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.24675, -6.47756
- SMR number
- DU024-034----
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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
The site is located in a clearing in Slievethoul Woods on the summit of Saggart Hill. A passage tomb comprises of a large circular, round-topped, chambered cairn (diam.22m; H 2.75m). There is a central hollow where cairn material has been robbed. The chamber extends E-W. There are four orthostats in position. The site is too overgrown to identify kerbstones but Herity (1974, 256) describes a single granite boulder visible near the base at N edge of a cairn (Healy 1975, 1-19). It lies c. 300m WNW of passage tomb (DU024-035----)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 153/1940).
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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