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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Mullaghmore (Drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Mullaghmore, 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
Mullaghmore (Drumahaire By.)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.23280, -8.17229
SMR number
LE015-108001-

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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

Located in a coniferous forest on top of a broad hill. A single-chambered gallery (dims 4m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) and a NE-facing semicircular court (dims 9.6m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) are at the NE end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c.15m NE-SW). An enclosure (LE015-108002-) is adjacent to NW. It is now largely removed through tree-planting and cutting (Bing 2013). (Richardson and Lowry-Corry 1940, 178-80; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 67-8)

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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