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Megalithic structure

Glennanammer, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Glennanammer, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glennanammer
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.55231, -8.17797
SMR number
RO041-119----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a W-facing slope of a shelf at the head of an ESE-WNW valley. Fragments of unburnt human bone from what was described as a recently destroyed megalithic tomb were acquired by NMI in 1961 (Lucas 1963a, 124). The tomb had been situated in rock outcrop and was described as two parallel stones with a third on top. One of the stones (dims 1.5m x 0.6m; T 0.25m) survived. The human remains were at a depth of 1.2m and lay on a flat stone in three discrete accumulations. No remains of the structure are now visible, but the location is known locally. (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 511, 7.182)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 March, 2012

References

Lucas, A.T. 1963 National Museum of Ireland: Archaeological acquisitions in the year 1961. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 93, 115-33.

Sikora, M. and Cahill, M. 2011 Inventory of uninvestigated reports of human remains. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds.), Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 2, 447-526.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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