Magheraghanrush

Also known as:
Deerpark
Nearest town:
Sligo (6km WSW)
OS reference:
G753367
OS sheets:
16, 25
Latitude:
54° 16' 42.29 N
Longitude:
8° 22' 45.25 W
Added to TMA by

Sites within Magheraghanrush

​

​ •

location_on photo ondemand_video forum description link ​

​

​ •

location_on photo ondemand_video forum description link ​

Images

Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

From inside the western gallery, east across the court to the side-by-side eastern galleries. Again, the stone just outside the jambstones in the foreground is a possible fallen lintel.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking north at the back of the western tomb. The stone leaning against the backstone might be a roofstone.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Over the eastern gallery entrances towards Keelogyboy Mountain.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The south-east gallery. The stone immediately inside the entrance jambstones is a possible fallen lintel. The fallen stone behind it is a possible segmenting jambstone.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The lintel, with one of the larger court stones.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

From the back of the south-east gallery. Its backstone is the stone nearest right in this view. The north-east gallery runs parallel and has the gravity-defying lintel over its two entrance jambstones.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Aug 21, 2019
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by GLADMAN

Met an American archaeology student here who hadn’t heard of Julian Cope. The poor muppet.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 17, 2016
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

From the back of the two eastern galleries. Knocknarea is now visible from the site.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Nov 3, 2008
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The gravity-defying lintel with Knocknarea off to the left

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Nov 3, 2008
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The massive tomb from the back of the western gallery

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Nov 3, 2008
Image of Magheraghanrush (Court Tomb) by greywether

Nocturnal shot. No, it’s not the moon appearing above the trees – just an insect that got caught in the flash.

greywether
greywether Dec 30, 2003

Articles

Folklore

Magheraghanrush
Court Tomb
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 3, 2016

The Giants Grave is situated in the Deerpark. There are three departments in it. Some say that Giants were buried there and that it got its name from them. Others say that Owen Bell was buried there and others say it was a Druid’s Altar.

There are a number of big stones there and there is a lovely view from it.

It was more like a big grave in olden time than it is at present. There is an old story told of the grave by an old man who lived in Chapel Town near Cnoc Mór, a hill near Colga lake. He told that the giant stood on the middle of this hill to consider where he should have his grave. He looked towards the sunrise and said he would have it in that direction. He walked to the Deerpark and dug his grave there. He found his health failing. He remained in the Deerpark and lay in his grave every night. One night he died in it. It is not known how he was covered but it was well done.

From the Schools Collection of the 1930s, currently being digitised at duchas.ie. I like that other features of the landscape and the direction of the sunrise should be part of the story. Was Owen Bell one of the kings of Connacht? Mere googling is not telling me much.

Topics

Hurrah! A tomb with a view (at last) 3
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam
Nov 2008
Tool? or Fool?? 8
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam
Jan 2006

Sites within 20km of Magheraghanrush

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.