Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Aghanagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghanagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04089, -8.32991
- SMR number
- SL040-127----
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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
On a low ridge close to the W shore of Lough Arrow. The tomb stands in a low oval mound (25.5m SSE-NNW; 9m ENE-WSW). A court (min. L 5m) to the SSE is represented by four stones, one at the outer and one at the inner ends of both arms. Two jambs mark the entrance to a gallery (L 8m), a segmenting jamb on the N side of which indicates a division into two chambers. One stone remains of the N side of the first chamber and there are two on the S side. A stone outside the inner of these two seems to represent a doubling of the gallery side. Two orthostats at the S are the only remains of the inner chamber. A large slab in the front chamber may be a lintel displaced from above the entrance jambs. There is also a displaced slab at the back of the gallery.
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 a plan and sections of the monument (surveyed 1989).
Date of upload: 27 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.