Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Wardhouse, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wardhouse
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.46959, -8.34640
- SMR number
- LE001-022----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Built into an ENE-WSW field wall in undulating grassland. A rectangular chamber (dims c. 1m x c. 0.5m) is defined by two small portal stones (max. H 1.15m) and a sillstone facing S, together with a backstone which is leaning S into the chamber. (Holly 1976, 128-9)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
Holly, D. 1976 Megalithic monuments at Tullaghan. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 5 (17), 121-39.
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