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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Flaskagh More, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Flaskagh More, County Galway, 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
Flaskagh More
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Cairn
Coordinates
53.67143, -8.68412
SMR number
GA005-051----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

On SE-facing slopes of Slieve Dart overlooking gently undulating farmland. The monument consists of a pair of galleries set back to back and 1.75m apart. They are aligned roughly E-W and are incorporated in a cairn of uncertain outline (c. 22m E-W, c. 15m N-S). The E gallery (L 6.7m, Wth c. 1.5m), which consists of two chambers, is preceded by a short ante-chamber. In front, and to S of this, are the meagre remains of a court represented by two orthostats. The W gallery is poorly preserved; only its E end survives (L 2.5m, Wth c. 1.1m). There are no indications of a court at this end of the monument, (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 1-2; Ó Nualláin 1989, 118)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Nearby in the register

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

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