Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Chambered Grave and Souterrain
Carnanbane, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Standing Stone
- Date of construction
- Pre 1600
- Address
- Chambered Grave and Souterrain, Magheramore Road, Carnanbane TD, Dungiven, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Carnanbane
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.89574, -6.95483
- Date of survey
- 21 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/05/044
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A chambered grave in the corner of a field adjacent to Magheramore townland boundary. More accurately a court or horned cairn. Because of the overgrowth,it is difficult to comprehend the stone arrangement on the shallow mound. Several stones are upright in the manner of orthostats and may define the chamber or entrance to it. The souterrain could not be identified.
Historical information
Court tombs are dated between 3800BC and 2500BC. The Carnanbane court tomb is the remains of a long 2 chambered grave. Though the present remains appear a jumble of stones, it is thought the cairn was defined by a circle of standing stones some 13 metres in diameter.SMR No. LDY 30.28
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1838
Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams, Q.U.B. p. 44, 47, 56
Secondary Source
1. Banagher History Group, Historic Monuments and Sites of Banagher p. 15, 16.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The remains of a court tomb, with several vertical stones or orthostats remaining among others. Much of the cairn has been removed in the past.
Nearby in the register
- Former Flax MillStoreunder 1 mi
- Banagher Old Church – TowerTowerunder 1 mi
- Stone circleStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Banagher Old Church – GraveyardGraveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.