Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Graigueagowan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigueagowan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen
- Coordinates
- 53.11854, -8.26287
- SMR number
- GA117-041----
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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
In gently rolling farmland, some 4km to the NW of Portumna. Overgrown with thorn and bramble, this tomb has been used as a dump for field stones. The remains comprise a gallery (L 4m; Wth 1m), aligned approximately E-W, represented by three stones at N and two at S. Two outer-wall stones stand to the S of the gallery and a displaced slab lies at its W end. The structure is embedded in a mound (L 12m; Wth 8m
average). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 18–19)
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
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.