Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Crannagh (kiltartan Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crannagh (kiltartan Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.10100, -8.85815
- SMR number
- GA122-072----
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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 belt of flat limestone cragland, some 700m NE of a wedge-tomb (GA122-019----). This tomb consists of a cairn L 22m; Wth c. 9m), aligned NNE-SSW, incorporating towards its N end a well-preserved chamber formed of two tall portal-stones, two narrow sidestones and a large backstone; the whole is covered by a large roofstone. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 20-1; Weir 1980, 149)
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: 16 August 2019
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.