Slievethoul I

Also known as:
Cnoc Theach Saggard
Nearest town:
Kill (8km W)
OS reference:
O017228
OS sheet:
50
Latitude:
53° 14' 45.05 N
Longitude:
6° 28' 34.77 W
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Image of Slievethoul I (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Looking north-west towards the mound on a bitterly cold February day.

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ryaner
ryaner Feb 9, 2021
Image of Slievethoul I (Passage Grave) by ryaner

On the north side of the tomb, the rabbits digging their burrows reveal some quartz.

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ryaner
ryaner Jul 4, 2017
Image of Slievethoul I (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Still there, as more aerials and mountain-bike tracks are added.

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ryaner
ryaner Jul 4, 2017
Image of Slievethoul I (Passage Grave) by ryaner

2 large structural stones on the side of the mound

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ryaner
ryaner Apr 10, 2012
Image of Slievethoul I (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Ancient versus modern. There can only be one winner (at least that’s the feeling I got around here!).

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ryaner Jul 4, 2006

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Slievethoul I

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ryaner Apr 10, 2012

A not very strenuous walk from the parking area south of the peak (lots of scorch marks from the burning of cars, glass on the ground from broken car windows – park at your own risk) leaves you in the tangle of masts and fences that contains this ancient tomb.

If all the modernity wasn’t here, this would be a beautiful place, with views over the midlands plain to the whole of the west as far as the Slieve Blooms and further, north as far as the mountains of south Armagh, and over to the last of the Dublin/Wicklow hills around Newcastle. As it is this is a well-used place: mountain bikers, dog walkers (and their left behind dogshit) and the clatter of masts and buildings in varying states of decay.

It was a nice walk and the tomb in as unremarkable as I remembered, 3 structural stones visible, robbed out (or excavated) at the top, with no sign of a passage or chamber. It rises to a height of about 3 metres and there are some outlying stones on the west side that may be part of a kerb. I wanted to take in something neolithic on our walk today and was happy I came here.

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