Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Tawnamachugh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnamachugh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.35050, -8.31116
- SMR number
- LE006-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an upland karst landscape that slopes down gently to the SE. A long cairn (dims 65m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE at SW to 14m at NE; max. H 2m) has a single megalithic chamber (dims c. 1.6m x c. 1.5m) with a large roofstone (dims 2.15m x 1.9m) supported on one portal stone at the NE end. There are two side-stones from a possible subsidiary chamber (L 1.4m; Wth 1m) at the SW end of the cairn.
See the attached aerial view from SW
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
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.