Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Leagun (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leagun (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52459, -10.12323
- SMR number
- GA022-051----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope overlooking Streamstown Bay. This tomb, fairly well preserved but lacking a roof, consists of a large single chamber (L 3.5m, Wth c. 1.7m) aligned NNW-SSE, with its rear set close to an escarpment of outcropping rock. The W side of the chamber is formed of three stones and the E side of two stones. The entrance, at S, is marked by two tall, well-matched portal stones set inside the line of the adjoining sidestones. A single set stone stands to S of W portal. Traces of a mound survive to S and W. While it can be classified as a portal-tomb, the possibility of it being the rear chamber of a court-tomb cannot be excluded.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.