Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Garran (dartree By; Aghabog Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garran (dartree By; Aghabog Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.17782, -7.08677
- SMR number
- MO012-081----
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 a broad E-W spur and incorporated in a kink of a NW-SE field bank on the SW side. A chamber (L 2m; Wth 1m), opening to the NNW, is represented by two portal stones, two side stones on either side, and a back stone. The roof stone is displaced and leaning against one of the E side-stones. It is listed as a portal tomb (Ó Nualláin 1983, 100), and is a nearly perfect example of one.
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
Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Irish portal tombs, topography, siting and distribution. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 75-105.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.