Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Fuerty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fuerty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dermot & Grainnes Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot & Grainnes Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.61538, -8.26397
- SMR number
- RO039-064----
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
In a low-lying landscape. Six kerbstones on the NW side (L 6.5m) and two large facade stones on the SW side (L 4.5m) survive with two of the N side-wall stones of the chamber. The stones are incorporated into a mound (dims c. 13.9m NE-SW; 7.9m NW-SE; H c. 0.3-0.6m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 198; English, 1969, 2; deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 38-9)
See the attached view taken from the NE
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.
English, N.W. 1969 Megalithic tombs near Athlone, past, present and spurious. Journal of the Old Athlone Society 1, 1-3.
Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.
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