Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Drumerkeane, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumerkeane
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95885, -7.70176
- SMR number
- LE033-060----
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 in a private garden on a gentle N-facing slope. This was always regarded as a ‘Cromlech’ and was described in the 1930s (IFC: Schools Collection, vol. 0226, 606-07) as ‘seven feet long, four feet wide, and one foot in depth’. A single conglomerate slab (L 2m; Wth 1.2m; T 0.4m) is propped up by several small boulders (H above the ground 0.3m).
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended; 9 December, 2019
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.