Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Gortermone (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortermone (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.24774, -8.17349
- SMR number
- LE015-062----
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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
Located in a clearing of a coniferous forest, on a S-facing slope. This is a single gallery (dims 6m N-S; 2m E-W) with a possible court at N, represented by a line of 4 stones (L c. 6m) on the W side. (Lowry-Corry and Richardson 1940, 173-4, 177-8; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 66-67)
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.
Lowry-Corry, D. and Richardson, P. 1940 Some further megalithic discoveries in the counties of Cavan and Leitrim. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 70, 169-81.
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