Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Dunmaurice, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmaurice
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.13657, -6.86795
- SMR number
- MO019-021----
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 on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins with a small pot lough (diam. c. 100m) c. 150m to the E. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Giants Grave’. Two orthostats support a lintel, which could be interpreted as the entrance to a court tomb (de Valera 1960, 131).
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.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 22 June 2018
References
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.