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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Loughscur Tomb

Dolmen in County Leitrim, Ireland.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentNot recorded
  • DateNot stated
  • FolkloreNone recorded
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Loughscur, Co. Leitrim54.01935, -7.96527
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At a glance

  • TypeMegalithic tomb - portal tomb
  • Recorded sizedims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m
  • Condition (as surveyed)Ruined

What to look for

  • Capstone
  • Portal stones

Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

Can you visit?

  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
  • Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
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History and description

Located in pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope, c. 250m S of Lough Scur. Limestone slabs form a S-facing chamber (dims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m) consisting of two portal-stones, two collapsed sidestones, a collapsed backstone and a large roofstone, now broken into four pieces.

Full archaeological record 100 words

Located in pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope, c. 250m S of Lough Scur. Limestone slabs form a S-facing chamber (dims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m) consisting of two portal-stones, two collapsed sidestones, a collapsed backstone and a large roofstone, now broken into four pieces. Two slabs 6m to the N may be the remains of a second chamber. The tomb is now surrounded by a concrete and stone path and it is accessible from a small carpark at a roadside c. 40m to the SW. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 194; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 84-5)

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Updated 23 September 2008 · Based on the The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

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