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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Coolmurly, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Coolmurly, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolmurly
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Giants Graves
Coordinates
54.08873, -8.25437
SMR number
SL035-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The monument, which has been destroyed, stood some 10m N of the northern extremity of a court tomb (SL035-062----). OS documents record a structure formed of upright stones at this spot in or about 1914 but it had been removed by 1952. A plan of the tomb (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 454, no. 13; 1888, 175, no. 13) shows an oval gallery (L c. 7m; max. Wth c. 3m) which seems to have opened to the N. In a brief account Wood-Martin claimed that the monument terminated in two circles though these are not illustrated on his plan. A wedge tomb (SL035-063----) lies c. 150m to SSW. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 65-6, no. 107)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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