Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Cregg (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09574, -8.43429
- SMR number
- GA125-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pastureland with outcropping rock, some 3km to the WSW of the village of Abbey. This tomb is very ruined and comprises a gallery (L c. 4.5m; Wth c. 1.3m), aligned E-W, which is incorporated in a roughly oval mound. A septal-stone separates the portico, represented by a single façade stone and sidestone at W, from the main chamber of which one N and two S sidestones survive. (MacMahon 1978, 78)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
References
McMahon, M. 1977 Stone Monuments in the Ballinakill District. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 36 (1977-78), 78-81.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.