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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Cloghernagh (Dartree by), County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Cloghernagh, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloghernagh (Dartree by)
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Grave
Coordinates
54.20217, -7.10451
SMR number
MO012-028----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. This is the remains of a back-to-back dual court-tomb, orientated approximately NE-SW, which is incorporated in a field bank. A single court stone and an entry jamb of the NE tomb survive. The gallery (L 5.5m; Wth 1.6m), narrowing towards the rear, is divided into two chambers by two jamb -stones. Two jamb-stones, a single side-stone, and the adjoining shared back stone are all that survive of the SW gallery. There are indeterminate remains of a cairn (diam. 8m). (de Valera 1960, 123)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 17 July 2007

References

de Valera, R. 1960 The court cairns of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 60C, 9-140.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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