Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Moytirra West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moytirra West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone
- Coordinates
- 54.07935, -8.28708
- SMR number
- SL035-075----
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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
The monument, which stood on elevated rocky pasture just over 2km E of Lough Arrow, had collapsed by 1888 (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 461, no. 21; 1888, 182-3, no. 21). Two mid-19th century sketches of the tomb reproduced by Borlase (1897, 186-7) show a portal tomb with tall portal-stones and a low backstone supporting a high-pitched roofstone. The side of the structure clearly visible in the sketches is formed by a single stone. A number of large stones, some of them partly obscured by a field fence, are still at the site. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 68-9, no. 110)
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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.