Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Killeen (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (costello By., Kilbeagh Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93389, -8.85969
- SMR number
- MA062-124----
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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 the SE corner of a modern rectilinear pasture field, located on a W-facing slope of a natural rise in an area of gently undulating terrain.
This unclassified megalithic tomb consists of a subrectangular cairn (12.6m E–W; 5.4m N–S; H 0.4-0.8m) of small and medium-sized stones, with a few larger stones also visible. A single upright slab (L 1.3m; T 0.4m), with long axis aligned N–S, protrudes from the W end of the cairn, rising 0.3m above the top of the cairn; this may be an in situ orthostat. The cairn is largely sod-covered; the E end is obscured by brambles and hawthorn bushes.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 January 2021
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.