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Looks kind of similar to ship barrows I have seen in Sweden, beautiful site, land owner a pleasure to talk with
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Remains of a ruined wedge tomb 20m distant
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This lies just off a track accessed next to an abandoned farmhouse on the the main road, make sure to close all the gates, if you continue another 1.5km to the end of the track its reasonably easy to find Boloona Wedge tomb about 500m distant
So close Dunhill portal tomb couldn’t resist going back for a look, this is one weird looking tomb
(Earlier pic was an error)
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Difficult to find unless you know where to look, take the narrow boreen to the right just beyond a farmhouse, continue for around 300m and before the track veers 90 degrees the wedge tomb lies to the right just behind a high ditch (you can just about make out the capstone but it barely resembles one) very overgrown
Oldest paint-making studio ever is discovered in cave
Exciting find shows ancient humans used toolkits, recipe at site 100,000 years ago
msnbc.msn.com/id/44893413/ns/technology_and_science-science/
irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0916/1224304193570.html
HOLY WELLS, bridges, milestones, vernacular buildings, lime kilns and other industrial sites that post-date 1700 will be “left without any protection” following moves to “delist” them, the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland has claimed.
In what it described as a “very worrying proposal”, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is seeking to exclude all post-1700 archaeological and historical structures and sites from the national Record of Monuments and Places (RMP).
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Again came across this en route to a motorcycle photorally location, no doubt a fine court tomb exists under all the earth and vegetation but for the moment not much to see unfortunately
Needs a good bit of tidying up, dropped over here Saturday on way to a photorally location
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Very accessible and easy to find and in good condition, just off the road two fields away from a restored old schoolhouse, a pleasant find on my way home from the north yesterday
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