Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Ardabrone, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardabrone
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.25636, -8.69004
- SMR number
- SL013-052----
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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 gentle S sloping ground in rolling pasture. A chamber (int. dims. 2.53m N-S; 1.52m E-W) with 6 surviving stones, but lacking a backstone and roofstone (Ó Nualláin 1983, 100, No. 3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 28-9).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.