Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Sheegeeragh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheegeeragh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75212, -8.23220
- SMR number
- RO028-134----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope with rock outcrop. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 12m N-S; 11.5m E-W) defined by the stumps of occasional kerbstones. At its S edge there is a passage (dims 3.5m E-W; 1.9-2.05m N-S), of which most of the orthostats (dims 0.2-0.5m x 0.1-0.2m; H c. 0.1-0.3m) of the S side survive. Outside the kerb there are two lines of orthostats (L 4.4m; 3.3m) aligned NE-SW. Cairn (RO028-133---) is 80m to the N, and passage tomb (RO028-135----) is 70m to the S. (Ó Nualláin 1968, 27; Herity 1974, 280, RO 5)
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
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Ó Nualláin, S. 1968 A ruined megalithic cemetery in Co. Donegal and its context in the Irish passage grave series. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98, 1-29.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.