Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cloonker, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonker
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Kers Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kers Grave (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.66755, -7.81115
- SMR number
- LF018-070----
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
In pastureland. On the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map this feature is shown some 60m to the SE of the position recorded on the 1914 ed. In 1837 O'Donovan recorded that there was then in this townland a 'giant's grave fifteen feet [c. 4.6m] long which should be shewn on the map' (OSL, 76). The name 'Site of Ker's Grave' applied to it on the 1837 ed. suggests that the feature may have been destroyed shortly after it was recorded in the OSL. There are no remains at the position indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. At the position shown on the 1837 edition, immediately N of a field fence, a rectangular area (c. 30m E-W; 12m N-S) is distinguished from the rest of a large pasture field by its uneven surface and patches of nettles.
Compiled by: Eamon Cody
Date of upload: 27 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.