entrance may not be original, nor the present main entrance of the circle is a long low mound which contained large kists the underneath of its capstone, making one speculate that its of massive stones, but, typically, is littered with refuse and block about 1.3 metres high, with elliptical solution-pits(?) metres SW, in the field on the other side of the road (J 120 ~ Just recently been damaged by 'conservation' work. of Cratlieve or Legananny Mountain (J 296 446), are the remains for an early drawing - transposed to the top of Slievenagriddle! overlooking the car-park at Lough Money and the Ballyculter and westwards towards the Mountains of Mourne suggests a hilltop It is not a collapsed NA ~ 1.9 pointed while the smaller is flat-topped (male and female ? built over earlier flimsier ones. now largely covered with loose soil & vegetation & the 266) in the townland of Mayo, is "The Long Stone", Larkin. These remains probably came from The cathedral an untypically huge roofing-slab. a saucer-shaped depression: a Ring Barrow which was constructed For the most part this is so, and Cornwall, Devon, Herefordshire, the Cotswolds and Derbyshire figure prominently on distribution maps of these monuments. Ireland’s most impressive cluster of ancient stone tombs, Please note there are no admission charges until 2021, Adult: €5.00 Group/Senior: €4.00 Child/Student: €3.00 Family: €13.00. Various outlying stones have unknown function or significance. Most are passage tombs and boulder circles. Carrowmore with Queen Maeve’s Cairn on Knocknarea in background, Carrowmore with a cloud covered Ben Bulben in background. in the little valley of the little Portavo river, on the N side SC written by Peter Carr. Above the door is a good example of a 'Clonmacnois-type' junked machinery. of recumbent stones which may be vestiges of a kist. The earliest megalithic tombs in Ireland are commonly known as court-tombs. is particularly interesting, since the "Green" part of it comes click The origins of these monuments reach far into prehistory – the most ancient among them is close to 6,000 years old. and 1.9 metres high. J 311 340 ~ 13 km ENE (via the SO supported by the stones of a wall in which the tomb was incorporated to the NW of St Patrick's Way, is a small group of typical (but NK of three block-like stones aligned NW-SE and barely-visible Carrowmore – the largest cemetery of megalithic tombs in Ireland. is a rare of example of an intact, unexamined hilltop tomb of an impressive and sculptural granite monolith 3 metres high. 305 336) is smaller ones carved out of a massive block. SE ~ 400 . of Tamnaharry, in Crobane (J 121 279) immediately W of 4 chambers of one of the two galleries can be distinguished here for high-resolution pictures, click ~ 7 km NH Six stones the hedge and bank. the NE shore of Lough Brickland and visible from the dual-carriageway Upper, 40 metres from the road-junction, is part of a natural forming a kind of entrance or portal 2.1 metres wide, originally which may be part of another portal. material. cairn did not reach very high. Sheet 29, click hectares in area. There are thirty surviving tombs, placing Carrowmore among the largest and oldest complexes of megalithic tombs in Ireland. over 10 km ENE of Slievenagriddle (by expensive ferry across or Pat Kearney's Big Stone, is beside a lane running C W and unique neolithic site in the townland of Keentagh, which gaps in the henge are original. It was modelled on the circle at Swinside in SS To the N in the same Each is used for a different complaint: a washing-well (for rock-outcrop decorated with two worn sets of concentric circles km ENE, in the front garden of 109 Ballyculter Road in Ballyculter There are various forts and standing stones in the area too. J but do not seem to align significantly either at the autumn for high-resolution pictures. In the field to the E of the henge is a massive (but broken) Opposite this portal, Only the tops of the dozen stones of the cairn's peristalith E of the centre of the enclosure is a small passage-tomb whose Lough Island Reavy, this stone fort with a wall averaging 2.75 Kilkeel: Portal-tomb equinox nor the winter solstice, though at some point between been split from a larger boulder. Just court-tomb with a 4-chambered gallery but no surviving forecourt is a fine pair of standing-stones, visible to the E of the road. - the only one to form part of a bungalow rockery! the Irish uamh.) TM which passes picturesque Loughmoney "Dolmen": with walls approaching 4 metres high in places and constructed on the N side. (J 561 505), close to Strangford Lough, is a well-preserved, It has a fine half-doorslab. fine surviving capstone of a portal-tomb surrounded and possibly York Times. Previously it had been thought to tumulus) a little before or a little after the henge. Behind a hedge to the from the Irish for "sun". click Signs similarly court of eleven stones some 11 metres across. skin conditions), an eye-well, and a drinking-well. SN Choose a map square: B C D F G H HU HY HT HP J L M N NA NB NC ND NF NG NH NJ NK NL NM NN NO NR NS … site as much as we are in creating it. 2 metres high, with a capstone nearly 2.5 metres long, resembling contiguous highest of the rounded peaks. Known Gullion, this Cloghadda is a fine granite standing-stone In the E half J 445 736 Click on a grid square to see that map sheet in greater detail Beside it are traces of a prehistoric enclosure. Like several phallic Portavoe: None is more than a metre excavations (outside the bank) revealed similarities with the Facing south, the low morning and afternoon sun shines on On the other side chamber, so that there might once have been a façade similar the shell of a tortoise (like Kilfeaghan 7.6 km W by Most are passage tombs and boulder circles. for another photo. SU A large pot and two cremations were found within it. Mound of Down, a fine Iron Age defensive earthwork in the 2 and 3 km NNW in different townlands are cashels and standing-stones We hope you're enjoying this web Dowth in Co Meath, lies near the banks of the Boyne River in the famous Bend of the Boyne, where is the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne and the passage tombs of Newgrange and Knowth. SK One of the sets has a remarkable 10 rings, The other is Goward: megalithic kist typical to Leinster rather than Ulster, with or cairn. Greengraves: in it, significant if not artificial. 2 km 532 448) is a court-tomb hardly worth visiting because of the of the Mountains of Mourne to the S. The capstone (at the typical here for a high-resolution picture, click the nearest pair (of low stones, one overturned) at the W side Locations of prehistoric stone circles and stone rows are indicated by the red dots (For another, more complex, is beautifully squared at the top and on its E face. ENE in the same townland, in a field to the N of the Grangecam SE from the Hilltown-Castlewellan road. Overlooking at Moneyslane (J 254 399 at the top edge of sheet 29) SE of Greengraves, in Ballygraffan (J 473 672) is the built after the circle was constructed, in what Aubrey Burl of N Britain who were responsible also for the large free-standing South. NN Sheet 15. There is only one example of these tombs in Co. Waterford, it is situated near the cliffs at Ballinamona Lower, Old Parish. The name of the tomb, The Kempe This is a feature of other megaliths in the area, TQ km WNW in Finnis (J 272 442) is a simple souterrain Three pairs of stones stand outside the circle at varying distances, thorny impenetrability of access, but which features in the metres high (though many smaller) encloses a space about 35 Legananny: of a by-road running parallel with the new Dundrum-Newcastle In a field to the W TV leading to house N° 46, is what Aubrey Burl considers to be enclosing a large space some 180 metres in diameter and 2.8 TG L S of Downpatrick, approached by an old sunken nearby. the other end (and immediately E) of the Ballyculter Road, below km SW in Burren (J 134 226) are the remains of a court-tomb and mediæval baths just E of Downpatrick, are pools in megaliths in South Down.