Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Carricknagat, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknagat
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.51516, -8.22164
- SMR number
- RO044-058----
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
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Druid's Altar, and described on the 1915 ed. as the site of a Dolmen. It is situated on a low-lying, level landscape. It was described c. 1910 as the site of a 'Druid's Altar' (OS Name Book), and later described as a collection of boulders in a field wall (Gannon 1972). These have since been removed and replaced by a modern replica of a megalithic tomb (H c. 1m). Archaeological testing (06E0750) immediately to the S produced no related archaeological material (Morahan 2010b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
Morahan, L 2010b Carricknagat. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of arc archaeological excavations in Ireland, 410, No. 1484. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.