Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court 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 Graves
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave, Giants Grave (site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.17560, -7.08352
- SMR number
- MO012-083----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.