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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Lurgankeel, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Lurgankeel, County Louth, 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
Lurgankeel
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Megalithic Structure
Coordinates
54.04479, -6.44011
SMR number
LH004-055----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007

The monument is 160m NW of portal-tomb (LH004-056----). Situated on the W side of the valley of the Kilcurry River. It consists of a substantial grass-grown oblong mound (L 12m; max. Wth 7m; max. H 1m) in which there is the remains of a long gallery, aligned NNE-SSW. Two clumps of white-thorn trees grow on the S end of the mound. The monument was listed as an unclassified megalithic tomb (Ó Nualláin 1989; Ó Nualláin & Walsh 1986a, 1991) but following a more recent examination it is clear that it is a wedge-tomb.
The gallery (at least 4.5m long) is aligned almost due N-S with the entrance at the S end. A large septal-stone marks the S end of the gallery.The E side of the gallery is represented by at least five stones but only two possible sidestones are visible on the W side. Near the N end of the mound is a low set stone with a gabled top. It may be a backstone or a kerb-stone. A prostrate slab in the gallery area may be a displaced roofstone.

Nearby in the register

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

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