Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Lurgankeel, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgankeel
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Megalithic Structure
- Coordinates
- 54.04368, -6.43832
- SMR number
- LH004-056----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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 remains of this portal-tomb are 160m SE of wedge-tomb (LH004-055----). All that survives is a portal stone, 2.5m high, and a prostrate roof stone measuring 3.7m by 2.9m by 1.2m (CLAJ 1910, 300).
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.