Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Abbeyderg, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyderg
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63620, -7.79413
- SMR number
- LF018-065----
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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 a low ridge. This tomb is very overgrown with hazel and thorn bushes. Three stones of the E arm of a N-facing court stand 2m forward of a gallery (L c. 6.5m) divided into an antechamber and two main chambers. The entrance to the gallery is between a set of tall, doubled jambs forming the antechamber. The antechamber leads to the first of the two main chambers, each side of which is formed by a single stone. A pair of jambs separates it from the longer, second chamber, open at the rear, its sides each of two stones. A displaced stone leans against the inner face of the southernmost sidestone on the E side of this chamber. The structure stands in a long cairn, the precise outline of which is obscured by the overgrowth. (Higgins 1978, 270-71)
Compiled by: Eamon Cody
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See linked document with a plan of the monument.
References
Higgins, R.B. 1978 Court cairn at Abbeyderg. Journal of the Longford Historical Society 1(4), 270-71.
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.