Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Bridgecartron Or Derrycashel, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bridgecartron Or Derrycashel
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04953, -8.19236
- SMR number
- RO003-087----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the edge of a low bluff overlooking a slight NW-SE valley immediately to the N. The backstone (dims 1.55m x 0.2-0.35m; H 1.05m) of an E-W gallery (L c. 7m) survives in a clump of scrub together with some stones from the S side of a court (diam. c. 4m) at its E end.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.