Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Loughscur, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughscur
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot & Grainia Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot & Granias Bed
- Coordinates
- 54.01935, -7.96527
- SMR number
- LE024-044----
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
Located in pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope, c. 250m S of Lough Scur. Limestone slabs form a S-facing chamber (dims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m) consisting of two portal-stones, two collapsed sidestones, a collapsed backstone and a large roofstone, now broken into four pieces. Two slabs 6m to the N may be the remains of a second chamber. The tomb is now surrounded by a concrete and stone path and it is accessible from a small carpark at a roadside c. 40m to the SW. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 194; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 84-5)
See the attached view from SW _1
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
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.
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.