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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The tall stone on the left is odd, protruding as it does prominently above any of the other stones that make up the gallery walls. It’s positioning at a right angle makes it probably a jambstone, or maybe part of a blocking wall between two separate galleries of a dual court tomb.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking back north. The gallery extends a good 20 metres beyond the jambstone here.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Again at the back of the gallery (it was the least overgrown and hence the easiest to photograph). The line of the gallery is easy to see starting with the stone immediately to the right, with the jambstone fairly obviously at right angles to the wall. There is still quite a lot remaining, but a lot is gone too.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking over the entrance stones down the length of the gallery, segmented into five separate chambers, all in varying degrees of preservation.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking west back towards Cavan. The bulk of the tomb is to the right, northwards.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

This is either the back of a five chambered court tomb, or the first chamber of a back-to-back dual court tomb (or maybe the second, the making of the lane to the left having destroyed at least the court and possibly the first chamber).

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The front of the tomb, the stone second from the right is an entrance jamb. The court veers off to the left.

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Image of Kilnameel (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Left is the rubble of the wall that bounds the lane, straight ahead west the tomb begins to emerge. Just as well we got here in late February – another couple of months growth and it would be invisible.

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