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Image of Malin More Dg. 96 (Court Tomb) by ryaner

The stone in the foreground here is said to be the backstone of the gallery of an east facing court tomb. You’d never tell, but this end contains the best of what remains.

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ryaner Aug 29, 2026

Looking west down along the shambles that used to be a small court tomb.

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ryaner Aug 29, 2026

What is thought the be the base of the walls of a limekiln lies in the middle of the scant remains here.

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ryaner Aug 29, 2026

The stone in the middle of this shot is a covering lintel over what seem to be two segmenting jambstones. The tomb is overall a wrecked mess.

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ryaner Aug 29, 2026

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Malin More Dg. 96

Court Tomb

ryaner Sep 7, 2026

The first of the many megalithic sites to be encountered as you travel west into the large townland of Málainn Mhóir (Malin More). It’s 500 metres before Cloghanmore (Dg. 95) and on the other side of the road.

The tomb, like the others in the vicinity except Cloghanmore, is trashed, and hard to interpret on the ground. This ground is heavy and the grasses are high – the field, boggy pasture, feels like it hasn’t been grazed in years.

The monument is about 10 metres into the field from the road but the bank is high – a judicious bit of the usual clambering had us beside the tomb in a relatively short time. I couldn’t make head nor tail of the place until I got back and looked at the plan. The round structure plonked on top of the gallery is thought to be a lime kiln, so any hopes that there were substantial remains here could be quickly forgotten (I imagine the kiln builders built it here because of the ready supply of stones and not for any proto-sacred reasons). There are some structural stones of the gallery remaining, but with the tall grass and rushes hindering any easy interaction I would say this one is for the completists only.