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On a poorly drained low-lying patch of ground about 50m ENE of an unclassified megalithic tomb (SL021-062----).
This court tomb is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 277). The inner end of a SSE-facing gallery (L 4m; max. Wth 2.6m) is divided by segmenting jambs inset in the gallery walls into a well-preserved rear chamber (L c. 2m) and an outer chamber now represented by two opposed sidestones. The status of an upright stone between these two sidestones and crossing the gallery is unclear. Some 2m to the W of the gallery there is a lone kerbstone and 2-3m E of the gallery there are three others. The alignment of these kerbstones suggest that the structure stood in a cairn of trapezoidal plan. There is some cairn fill in the gallery and between it and the kerbstones. There are a number of displaced stones at the site including a group of four large examples just S of the surviving gallery structure. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 53-4, no. 84)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
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