Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Castleboy (skreen By., Tara Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleboy (skreen By., Tara Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dumha na nGiall Neamhnach
- Coordinates
- 53.57952, -6.61169
- SMR number
- ME031-033007-
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 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
Excavated in 1956-9, the remains comprise a mound, c. 21m in diam. and 3.5m high, covering an undifferentiated passage-tomb 4m long, opening to E and divided by three still stones. Cists and pits (ME031-033076-) inserted in mound. (Herity 1974, 252-3)
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.