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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Abbeyderg, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Abbeyderg, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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