Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Altore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Altore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70487, -8.68044
- SMR number
- RO032-021----
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 slight rise in an undulating landscape. Wedge-shaped grass-covered cairn (dims 12m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE at NE to 6m NW-SE at SW) retained by orthostats on the NW side and four stones from the façade at SW. The façade leads through a portico over a septal slab into the chamber which is concealed by the cairn. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 37-8; Timoney 1996a, 9)
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 559
See the attached image (023.jpg) taken from the N.
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.
Timoney, M. A. 1996a Additions to the landscape around Granlahan, Co. Roscommon. In Mary Ruane (ed.) Souveneir of Granlahan Monastery and primary school re-union 1850-1996. Granlahan.
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