Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Cornaville North, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornaville North
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.86600, -6.93423
- SMR number
- ME001-005----
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
Located towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope. A subrectangular cairn (dims 40m NW-SE: 15m NE-SW) incorporates at the NW end the remains of the gallery of a three chambered court-tomb (L 6.3m; Wth 2.3m). A single court stone is exposed to the N of the entrance jambs. (Eogan 1958, 179-81)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 31 August 2018
References
Eogan, G. 1958 The Gallery Graves of Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 88, 179-84.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.