Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Drumruekill, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumruekill
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01871, -7.99933
- SMR number
- LE023-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on low-lying ground sloping gently down to E and S, but surrounded by drumlins. A circular cairn (diam. 24m; H 0.4m at N to 1.6m at E) is covered in bushes with no visible kerbstones but it contains a central chamber (dims 1.3-1.7m x 0.5-0.8m) defined by two parallel sidestones aligned N-S. There is a large roofstone (dims 1.7m x 1.7m; T 0.25m) in position, but a quarry (dims 7-10m N-S; 5m E-W; D 0.8m) immediately N of the chamber might have destroyed a passage.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.