Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Birrinagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Birrinagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90723, -7.60925
- SMR number
- LF003-015----
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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
On thin-soiled, level land, 90m to the SE of a stream. A small chamber (L 1.5m) lacks sidestones. Two portal-stones (H of both 1.8m) flank a doorstone (H 1.5m) at the E. A backstone (H 1.3m) is 1.5m W of the doorstone. A displaced roofstone (L 2m; Wth 1.55m; T 0.2m-0.4m) leans against the N side of the structure. According to a local claim, a sidestone at the S and what might have been a subsidiary roofstone were removed in the 1960s. A low mound encircles the site but this is largely, if not entirely, of recent origin. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 119)
Compiled by: Eamon Cody
Date of upload: 22 November 2012
See linked document with plan and sections.
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1989 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 5, Co. Sligo. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.