Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortakeeran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.16211, -8.65086
- SMR number
- SL025-029----
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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
This feature, sited on the flat floor of a broad valley, was first shown on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. A single orthostat (L 2m; T 0.25m; H 1.6m if upright), leaning to the W, marks the site. While possibly the last remnant of a megalithic chamber the nature of the site remains uncertain. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 98, no. 19)
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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.