Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Knockanyconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanyconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54449, -8.05423
- SMR number
- RO045-053001-
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
On a low-lying undulating karst landscape. A circular roofstone (diam. 2.2-3m; T 0.8m) is supported at E by two portal stones (N stone: 1m x 0.5m; H 1.65m; S stone: 1m x 0.7m; H 1.4m) but the base of the roofstone rests on the ground at W. Just to the W is a megalithic cist (RO045-053002-) (dims c. 2m E-W; c. 1m N-S) consisting of a rectangular roofstone (dims 2.5m E-W; 1.8m N-S; T 0.7m) resting on at least four boulders (dims c. 0.5m x 0.5m; H 0.5m). Barrow (RO045-054---) is c. 40m to the SW. (English 1969, 2)
See the attached view (003) from the SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See attached document with a plan a sections of the monument.
References
English, N.W. 1969 Megalithic tombs near Athlone, past, present and spurious. Journal of the Old Athlone Society 1, 1-3.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.