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Difficult to find unless you know where to look, take the narrow boreen to the right just beyond a farmhouse, continue for around 300m and before the track veers 90 degrees the wedge tomb lies to the right just behind a high ditch (you can just about make out the capstone but it barely resembles one) very overgrown
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Closed for business unless you want to make a telephone call and organise a viewing, not to worry, plenty to see nearby
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Magheracar is perched almost right at the edge of a small cliff and risks being washed away by a big storm at any time, very fragile indeed
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Two fine sites a few minutes apart by car, again both well signposted with easy access and good parking
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This gem of a site lies less than one km from the more well known Bocan stone circle, a local pointed it out to me and it was of the highlights of my two week trip to the north west, access again is no problem here
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Stunning location less than a mile from Claggan Court tomb (thanks for the land owner there for informing me about this site) Tory island is visible from the top of the hill, spent two hours relaxing here, wonderful place and as with the court tomb down the road, easy access
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Founded by Saint Connell in the 6th century the island of Inishkeel is accessible by foot at low tide, Inishkeel lies just off the village of Naran, you should have about two and three hours to walk around here before the island gets cut off again, the site in question lies near the sandbar at the east side of the island.
The site contains the ruins of two churches, a walled graveyard with some wonderful carved slabs and stones
[Sorry Bogman. Although interesting this is rather too modern for TMA unless you can give it some prehistoric provenance.
TMA Ed.]
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This 18 foot tall square pillar is visible for a good distance and is located in an old graveyard 2 miles outside Ballycastle and is pre Christian
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Unlike Castletown E 300m distant this site lies largely under the peat most of the exposed parts are about 4 inches over the ground, took me 45 mins to find, actual co_ordinates are 54.28763 N and 09.28374W, 3 court tombs are very close to each other with good parking and are easy to get to
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The second most neglected megalith that I have seen in this country, what a disgrace
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In the graveyard in Craughaun, there was a wedge tomb called the Ballinphunta dolmen. Due to the extension of the graveyard, the tomb was excavated in 1990 by a group led by Brian Hodkinson. However, they only found pieces of modern pottery. FÁS workers erected a replica of this tomb in the new section of the graveyard.
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Cratloe/gyCratloe.htm
Progress.............not!
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This single stone is about 200m N/W from the nearby group of 3
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Tired and cold by the time I got here, after a motorcycle rally last night, that combined with having visited a few other sites earlier and also having a chest infection stopped me from staying longer, a local farmer took me to the site in his car when he noticed me walking up the track, observed that this site was possibly completely covered by stones in the past like a cairn, the farmer agreed saying that in the past a lot of ditches in the locality were made years ago by these, strange site, never saw the like, in places it looks like there is a double stone circle surrounding the monument, beautiful views, will return during the summer to this strange place
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According to the land owner this little known souterrain is intact and accessible, located just off a track and easy to find, or miss if you are not careful :-)
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There are two wedge tombs side by side here, one is collapsed and very ruinous
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Located over a wall just behind Fanyglavin wedge tomb
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Wedge tomb is located within a ring/stone fort
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Local Farmer Willie Keher took me to this site when he came across me on a pathway on his property, we had a good chat, said very few knew of this site and I could add it here, showed me an intact Souterrain closeby
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Under pressure to get a ferry to Inis Oírr (Inisheer, Aran Islands) didnt get to the cairn this time, looking forward to it, really impressive from a distance and easy to access
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This is in a sad and sorry state
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