Tawnatruffaun

Also known as:
The Giant's Griddle
Nearest town:
Dromore West (6km NNE)
OS reference:
G400282
OS sheet:
24
Latitude:
54° 11' 56.88 N
Longitude:
8° 55' 10.08 W
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Images

Image of Tawnatruffaun (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The point of maximum pressure on the northern portal.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Jul 26, 2022
Image of Tawnatruffaun (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The well-matched portals with half-height doorstone.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Jul 26, 2022
Image of Tawnatruffaun (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

The capstone narrows from 3.3 metres at the front to almost 2 metres at the back and is 3.15 metres long.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Jul 26, 2022
Image of Tawnatruffaun (Portal Tomb) by muller

Great little tomb, pretty easy to find (going by the map). The ground around the site looks like it could get bottomless in Winter.

Image credit: tmulraney
muller
muller Apr 4, 2016
Image of Tawnatruffaun (Portal Tomb) by CianMcLiam

This image sums up the weather all weekend, dark, grey and gloomy on one side, bright and summery on the other.

Image credit: Ken Williams
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Jul 4, 2005

Articles

Folklore

Tawnatruffaun
Portal Tomb
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 7, 2016

The Griddle is the name of a townland in the southern part of the parish of Easkey. In this townland is a famous cromlech called the Griddle stone. The Griddle stone is a great big flat stone resting on three smaller stones. The old people say that this stone marks the burial place of a giant long ago.

From the Schools Collection of the 1930s.

Topics

Tawnatruffaun, Co Sligo. 2
M
moses
Nov 2011

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