Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Aghavas, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghavas
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95811, -7.71914
- SMR number
- LE033-016----
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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 a gentle SW-facing slope. An overgrown chamber (dims 1.65m N-S; 0.9m E-W) formed by two portal-stones (max. H 1.45m) at N with one visible sidestone and a backstone, is set into the N end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 27.5m N-S; c. 7.5m E-W; max. H c. 1m) whose W side has been truncated at the N end by a NE-SW field bank. A large slab (dims c. 1.2m x 1.05m; max. T 0.4m) near the chamber may be part of the original roofstone. (Cooney 1985)
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
Amended: 9 December 2019
References
Cooney, G. 1985a Miscellanea - An unrecorded portal tomb at Aghavas, County Leitrim. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 115, 156-8.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.