Single bullaun in this monument rich area. There’s a souterrain in the enclosure to the right.
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Waiting for the sun up at cairn K looking down towards H and K. It never happened.
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G, with H and K over its shoulder. The naming system is dull but it’s handy.
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12 part series on the archaeology of Sligo, including individual podcasts on Carrowkeel, Mullaghfarna and Carrrowmore.
Achonry boulder burial, with Knocknashee in the distance.
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Cairn P at the edge of the sheer cliffs of Doonaveeragh mountain.
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Cairn P is on the northern tip of the summit of Doonaveeragh mountain.
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Pano from the south of the small cairn P, cairn O to its left in the near distance.
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Kerbstones on the northern arc of the cairn.
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Looking north-west towards the main cairns on Carrowkeel. Cairn G is on the extreme right.
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The cairn as I approached from the north-west.
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Across one of the hut sites towards Doonaveeragh mountain.
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Most of the hut sites are about this size, about 10 metres diameter.
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Some of the hut sites have a diameter of 20 metres. Most have double-walling, with rubble infill.
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Hut site with particularly defined entrance on its southern arc.
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Another hut site towards the east of the plateau.
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Across another hut site towards the main Carrowkeel hill with the largest concentration of tombs. The horizontal line just above the middle of the shot is the chasm between Mullaghfarna and Carrowkeel.
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Hut site with excavated interior.
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Natural bullaun at Mullaghfarna.
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The edge of one of the hut sites has this gorgeous orthostatic piece of limestone.
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From Cairn O, the limestone pavement has approx 150 hut sites, some built on the pavement, some with their interiors excavated out of the bedrock.
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On the Mullaghfarna plateau looking south to Doonaveeragh mountain with Cairns O and P.
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The approach to the Mullaghfarna plateau. The ‘stairs’ up the cliff are to the right of wall in the middle.
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Creating Space: Thoughts on place making & clustered house remains in prehistoric Ireland
YouTube video of a talk by Dr. Stefan Bergh, surveyor and excavator at Mullaghfarna.
The caves of Kesh from the road below. Did a reccy here on Saturday, going back on Thursday.
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Archaeologists uncover megalithic monument thought to be unlike any found in Ireland to date
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The weird arrangement at the Druid’s Judgement Seat.
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Said to be the last remains of another portal tomb.
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Looking north. The back of the capstone rests on a few boulders.
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Looking south-west, two portals and the capstone are all that remains.
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The National Monuments Service has confirmed that it is investigating a report of serious damage to a 3,000-year-old hillfort near Cavan town.
2.5 metre tall stone with well discernible Ogham.
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From top: Large capstone rests on smaller, secondary capstone, rests on backstone and padstone, rests on sidestone. The padstone levels out the secondary capstone, blowing my theory that the backstone was once taller and that the large stone in the chamber is part of this.
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From behind. The sidestone and the backstone protrude from ground level that is lower than the level of the ground at the front of the tomb, making the whole thing about 5 metres tall from bottom of backstone to tip of capstone.
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Chamber with large stone on the floor. I speculated that this was part of the backstone that snapped off and fell into the chamber. I’m probably wrong but can’t figure out any other basis for its presence.
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Clockwise from bottom: Doorstone, eastern portal, large capstone and eastern portal.
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