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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Garran (Dartree By; Aghabog Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Garran (Dartree By, 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
Garran (Dartree By; Aghabog Par.)
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Giants Graves
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Grave, Giants Grave (site of)
Coordinates
54.17560, -7.08352
SMR number
MO012-083----

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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

Located on a slight rise in a broad W-facing valley with the headwaters of a small E-W stream immediately to the S. This was a dual court tomb that was removed between 1857 and 1907. A plan of the monument among OS records shows two very similar two-chambered galleries aligned N-S and set 4m apart, back to back: N chamber (L 4m), S chamber (L 4.4m). Two set and three displaced stones surviving along the S side of an E-W road fence appear to represent the remains of a court. (Ó Nualláin 1977)

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.

See the attached plan by the OS c. 1835 after Ó Nualláin (1977, fig. 5)

Date of upload: 17 July 2007

References

Ó Nualláin, S. 1977 A dual Court-tomb at Garran Townland, county Monaghan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 107, 520-60.

Nearby in the register

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

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