Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Commons, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Graves
- Coordinates
- 54.01704, -7.83837
- SMR number
- LE029-002----
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 on a small rise in an undulating low-lying pasture. This is a double court tomb with courts facing NW and SE in good repair in a low cairn (dims c. 26m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW). The SE gallery (L c. 7m) has two chambers and the NW (L 3.55m) has only one, but some of the courtstones survive at NW. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 74-5)
See the attached views _1 from SE; _2 from NW:
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.
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