Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Keadew East, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keadew East
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.04666, -8.12658
- SMR number
- RO004-028----
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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
On limestone outcrop on a gentle S-facing slope. A segmented gallery of two chambers is aligned N-S. The N chamber (dims 2.8m NNE-SSW; c. 1.5m WNW-ESE) has only its W side complete while the S chamber (dims 3.05m NNE-SSW; 1.6m WNW-ESE) is almost complete. A subsidiary chamber (dims 1.8m N-S; 1.5m E-W) is just 3m W of the S chamber, while the N chamber opens into the remains of a court. The remains are surrounded by a grass-covered cairn (dims 16m N-S; 10-13m E-W; H 0.3-0.8m). (de Valera and O'Nuallain 1972, 31-2)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.