Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Barrinagh (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrinagh (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70668, -8.69298
- SMR number
- RO032-011----
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 level landscape of reclaimed pasture. Described (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 36-7) as two orthostats leaning inwards on the N side, and one on the S side of a chamber (dims 2.5m E-W; 1m N-S at E to 1.25m N-S at W). There were traces of a mound around it, but it has been removed since 1980 (SMR file).
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.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.