Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Ervey, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ervey
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 53.88154, -6.82957
- SMR number
- ME002-025----
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
Situated in a slight col with higher ground c. 120m to the N and at Cairnhill c. 180m to the S with lower ground c. 230m to the W and c. 250m to the E where there are N-S streams that coalesce c. 700m to the S. A large roofstone (dims 3.7m x 3.4m; T 0.8m) is supported by a S portal stone (dims 1.5m x 0.4m; H 1.6m), with what may be a collapsed door stone nearby as well as two smaller upright stones (Eogan 1958, 183-4). It located just on the W side of a NNW-SSE field bank. (ÓNualláin 1983, 99)
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
Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.