Passage tomb in Drumruekill, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated on low-lying ground sloping gently down to E and S, but surrounded by drumlins. A circular cairn (diam. 24m; H 0.4m at N to 1.6m at E) is covered in bushes with no visible kerbstones but it contains a central chamber (dims 1.3-1.7m x 0.5-0.8m) defined by two parallel sidestones aligned N-S. There is a large roofstone (dims 1.7m x 1.7m; T 0.25m) in position, but a quarry (dims 7-10m N-S; 5m E-W; D 0.8m) immediately N of the chamber might have destroyed a passage.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE023-030

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