Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Kilbegnet, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbegnet
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62015, -8.36267
- SMR number
- RO038-032----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Descirbed in 1978 as a stone gallery (dims. 6.5m E-W; 1. 25m N-S; H up to 1m) with a portico at W, and with an outer line of stones 1m N of the chamber (SMR file). It is no longer visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See attached document with sketch by Dr Seán Ó Nualláin of the remains (July 1973).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.