Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Knockatober, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatober
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.19228, -8.41299
- SMR number
- SL021-058----
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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 ridge in rolling pasture. The S side of a chamber is intact. It consists of a portal-stone (H 1.7m) at the E and an overlapping sidestone (L 3m; T 0.3m; max. H 1.3m). Just N of the sidestone is a prostrate slab, apparently the opposite sidestone, and adjoining the E end of the latter is another displaced slab, possibly a fallen sill. About 1.5m E of the last there is a prostrate slab of uncertain function. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 52-3, no. 82)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
SL021-058----_01.pdf
Attached images:
SL021-058----_01.JPG viewed from NW
SL021-058----_02.JPG viewed from W
SL021-058----_03.JPG viewed from S
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.