Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Dooroc,corneddan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooroc,corneddan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80726, -7.71589
- SMR number
- LF005-017----
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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 the summit of Corn Hill adjacent to a tall communications mast and associated buildings. This is a large, round cairn (diam. 18m; H c. 3m) on which there is an OS trigonometrical pillar. Though largely grass- and heather-grown, the indications are that it is of stone construction. A field wall, also the townland boundary, runs E-W across the top of the cairn. A central chamber approached by a passage from the NE, reportedly discovered in the cairn during the early decades of the 20th century, is said to have been reopened and then filled with stones in the 1960s (Herity 1974, 261). This may be a passage tomb. There are two cairns (LF005-018---- and LF005-020----) in the vicinity: the former lies c. 120m to the SW, the latter was not located.
Compiled by: Eamon Cody
Date of upload: 27 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.