Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Carrickglass, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickglass
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.09045, -8.31282
- SMR number
- SL034-152----
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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
In pasture at the head of a narrow valley opening to the NW. This well-preserved tomb, known as 'The Labby', faces uphill to the SE. It consists of a chamber (L 2.1m; Wth 0.9m at the front, 1.5m at the rear) with sides and back of single stones. The front of the chamber is formed by two portal-stones (H 1.4m) and a doorstone 0.3m lower than them. The structure is covered by a large rectangular roofstone (L 4.8m; Wth 3.4m; T 1.6m) resting on all the orthostats save the more southerly sidestone. There is peat-growth on top of the roofstone. Two raths (SL034-153----; SL034-154----) lie c. 80m to SE. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 63, no. 102)
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)
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.