Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Kilnagarns Lower, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnagarns Lower
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18007, -8.09787
- SMR number
- LE018-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin in pasture. Only the N side of a single chamber survives (dims 5m NE-SW) with two façade-stones at W (max. H 1.15m). It was excavated by J. X. W. P. Corcoran (1964, 194-8), who found traces of a cairn, one sherd of pottery (possibly Beaker), and undiagnostic flint and chert. A court tomb (LE018-006----) lies c. 20m to the ENE, and a possible standing stone (LE018-008---) is c. 50m to E. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 69)
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
Corcoran, J.X.W.P. 1964 Excavation of two chambered cairns at Kilnagarns Lower, Co. Leitrim. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 94, 177-98.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.