Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Gortakeeghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeghan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.23662, -6.99139
- SMR number
- MO009-063----
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 on the crest of a hill in a forested area with commanding views of the Twin Lakes to the S. The remains consist of four deeply set orthostats, aligned E-W, and a large boulder-like capstone 0.2m to the N. The capstone rises to a height of c. 0.5m above the surrounding ground level and there is a small cavity c. 0.25m deep underneath it. No evidence of a cairn survives. (CRDS 1998, 33)
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
References
CRDS (Cultural Resource Development Services) 1998 Summary of Archaeological Assessments prepared for Monaghan Water Supply Augmentation Scheme (Stage 3). Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.