Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Derrycallan North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycallan North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.00225, -8.80388
- SMR number
- GA129-011----
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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
In gently rolling pastureland, overlooking Ballynakill Lough some 400m to the N. This tomb consists of a small wedge-shaped chamber (L 2m; Wth c. 1.8m at SW narrowing to 1.4m at NE), aligned NE-SW, decreasing in height from W to E. The chamber, closed at SW by a single slab, is covered by a roofstone. Outer-walling survives to the S, and especially around the NE end. It is incorporated in a small mound which rises almost to roof height. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 23-4)
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
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury 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.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.