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Dermot & Grainia Bed — Loughscur

Portal tomb
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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) See the attached view from SW _1 The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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