Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Castlequarter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69537, -8.69994
- SMR number
- RO032-032----
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
Situated on a slight E-W rise towards the bottom of a S-facing slope in an ESE-WNW valley, with an extensive view out W-NW. It was described in 1974 as the E end of a gallery consisiting of a backstone (dim. 1m N-S) with side-stones at N (dim. 0.9m E-W) and S (dim. 0.4m E-W), There was a second side-stone 1.7m to the W at N and a second side-stone (dim. 0.3m E-W) just to the W at S (SMR file). All the stones were 0.15-0.3m high, but the monument had been removed by 1984. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture, but some stones c. 30m to the SE at the corner of the field may have come from the monument.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 September 2013
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.