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
- 53.24642, -6.47458
- SMR number
- DU024-035----
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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
Situate in a clearing on Saggart Hill. A passage tomb comprises of a flat-topped cairn (diam.24m; H 1m). It may be the denuded remains of a passage grave and lies c. 300m ESE of passage tomb (DU024-034----). (Price 1940, 123; Healy 1975, 1-19)
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.
Price, L. 1940 The Antiquities and Place Names of South County Dublin. Dublin Historical Record 2, 121-133.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.