Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Corrasluastia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrasluastia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 53.73631, -8.68593
- SMR number
- RO025-020----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf of a S-facing slope. A gallery (dims c. 6.5m NNE-SSW; c. 1m WNW-ESE) with one roofstone (dims 2.4m x 1.25m; T 0.3m) in position and some outer walling at W survives within an overgrown cairn (dims 13.5m N-S; 8m E-W). There are three stones of the facade at S. Standing stone (RO025-019001-) is c. 150m to the ENE. (de Valera and O'Nuallain 1972, 35-6)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.