Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Scregg (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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 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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.