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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Drumnacross, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Drumnacross, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumnacross
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Megalith
Coordinates
54.31485, -8.25841
SMR number
LE007-057----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Marked only on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Megalith’. It is located in low-lying pasture on the floor of Glencar valley with a SE-NW section of the Shanvaus River c. 60m to the SW. A cairn (diam. c. 15m) was disturbed c. 1912 during road-building when human bones were found in a lintelled chamber defined by 5 to 7 stones (National Museum of Ireland file). It was described as two adjacent parallel stones (L 1.95m; L 1.65m) protruding from a small cairn (diam. c. 5m) (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 83), but it is no longer visible at ground level.

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.

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