Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Drumnacross, County Leitrim, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.