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Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Knockranny, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - court tomb, Knockranny, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockranny
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.05382, -8.15461
SMR number
RO004-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the crest of a N-facing slope in a clearing in mixed woodland overlooking Lough Meelagh, which is c. 120m to the N. This is a two-chambered gallery (L 8.2m NW-SE; Wth 1.15-1.6m NE-SW), of which the NW chamber survives complete with jamb stones, but the other chamber that was attached to a circular court (diam. 4.7-4.8m) is largely missing. Eight orthostats of the court remain upright, including the jamb-stones of the entrance to the gallary, and the court was probably open at SE. No lintels and no evidence of a cairn survive.

See the attached view taken from the SE.
See attached document with plan and sections of the monument.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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