Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Shasgar, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shasgar
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.40267, -8.16067
- SMR number
- LE004-011----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf of rock at the N edge of a plateau with a cliff falling away immediately to the E. An oval cairn (dims 17m E-W; 12m N-S; max. H 2m) contains a single unsegmented roofless orthostatic chamber (dims 7m E-W; Wth 1.5m to 2.2m at W) with an entrance (Wth 0.75m) flanked by orthostats (H 0.9m) at W and traces of an oval court (dim. c. 8m E-W) at W. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 54-5)
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
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).
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
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.