Portal tomb in Lear, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated at the crest of a NW-facing slope. The tomb on McKenna’s land was widely known locally and it was described in the local folklore during the 1930s (IFC: vol. 0214, 332; 0220, 23-4; 022, 588-9). A large stone (dims 3m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW; T 0.2-0.4m) is resting on a single orthostat (dims 0.8m x 0.2m; H 1m) with another orthostat (dims 1m x 0.2m; H 1.2m) adjacent. The back of the large stone rests on the ground on the W side of a N-S field bank. The stone is surrounded by an overgrown cairn (diam. c. 20m; H c. 1m) which survives only W of the field bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE036-012

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