Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Greagh (monaghan By., Drumsnat Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greagh (monaghan By., Drumsnat Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18737, -7.01261
- SMR number
- MO013-025----
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
Situated at the crest of a W-facing slope. A large upright stone (L 2.5m; T 0.1m at W to 0.3m at E; H 1-1.1m) oriented NE-SW forms the SE side of a chamber only represented by two small earthfast stones (dims 0.6m NW-SE; 0.4m NE-SW; H 0.7m: 0.8m NE-SW; x 0.1m; max. H 0.3m) 1.6m distant to the NW.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 1 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.