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Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

Scregg (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, Scregg, 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
Scregg (Athlone North By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloghogle Stone
Latest-edition OS map
Cloghogle Stone
Coordinates
53.54778, -8.11122
SMR number
RO042-090----

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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

On the crest of the W-facing slope of a hill with a NNW-SSE ridge extending to the NNW and a low hill rising to the E. This is a rectangular chamber (int. dims 1.65m NNW-SSE; 1.05m ESE-WNW at N to 1.25m at S), each side formed by a single limestone slab (max. H 1.27m), but only the base of the S stone survives. The roof is formed by a single large stone. Archaeological testing (05E0021) c. 50m to the W failed to produce any related material (Delaney 2008a). (Dillon 1883-4, 16-19; Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 198-200; English 1969, 1,2; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 142)

See the attached images from SE (004) and W (006)

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

Delaney, F. 2008a Scregg: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 328, No. 1350. Dublin. Wordwell

English, N.W. 1969 Megalithic tombs near Athlone, past, present and spurious. Journal of the Old Athlone Society 1, 1-3.

Dillon, L. 1883-4 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 13, 16-19.

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.

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.

Nearby in the register

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

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