Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Toorclogher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toorclogher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.20336, -8.69687
- SMR number
- GA104-273----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low knoll near the W end of a long ridge in rolling farmland, some 3.5km to the SE of Craughwell. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1(972, 16-17) as the remains of a long gallery (L > 9m; Wth 1.9m at W narrowing to 0.9m near E end), aligned ENE-WSW, flanked along either side by outer-walling. A high septal-stone at W separated a short portico (L 1.6m) from the remainder of the gallery (L c. 7m). A single displaced roofstone lay across the middle of the gallery. The structure is incorporated in an irregularly shaped mound. On re-inspection in December 2007 the monument was heavily overgrown and field-clearance material had been dumped around its perimeter. (McCaffrey 1952, 14)
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).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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