Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Gormanston, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanston
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63459, -6.21719
- SMR number
- ME028-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
The following 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.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
Some 150m from monument on the coast (ME028-021----) are remains of a much denuded kerbed cairn, 37m in diam. and averaging c. 1m high. Listed as passage tomb. (Herity 1974, 252)
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.