Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - clearance cairn
Keadew West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keadew West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.05518, -8.14684
- SMR number
- RO004-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and sitauted towards the top of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Described as two grass-covered heaps of loose stones (dims. 6m x 2m; 3m x 1m) (deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 41). There is now only one (dims. 3m x 1.5m) surviving. It is not an antiquity.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.