Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Knockatotaun, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatotaun
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Druids Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.12814, -8.66222
- SMR number
- SL025-108----
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 gently sloping ground in rolling land. A large flat slab (L 3m SE-NW; Wth 2.7m; T 0.4m) is supported in a more or less horizontal position by four of seven stones set in irregular order under its perimeter. These are up to 1m long, 0.5m thick and 1.1m high. At least five other stones now lie loose under the perimeter of the roofstone. This is clearly an ancient burial chamber but its age and culture context is unclear. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 98, no. 20)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.