Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Annaghbrack, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghbrack
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.20541, -7.05611
- SMR number
- MO013-047----
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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 in a low-lying landscape between drumlins, with a small canalised N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is a long and overgrown wedge shaped mound (L 18m N-S; Wth at SE 17m; Wth at NW 9m), much of which appears to be the result of rock outcropping. There are some exposed blocks near the SE end, but no pattern can be discerned. It was listed by de Valera as a possible court-tomb in 1951 (p. 196) but excluded from his list in 1960.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 23 February 2018
References
de Valera, R. 1951 A group of horned cairns near Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 81, 161-97.
de Valera, R. 1960 The court cairns of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 60C, 9-140.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.