The tomb is pretty ruined. The large stone in the foreground is a possible roofstone from one of the side-by-side chambers. The stone to its left is a court stone. Behind is one of the stones of the ante-chamber of the eastern chamber, with the western jambs to the right.
Entrance jambstones of the western gallery, looking out into the court.
The southern stone is 2 metres tall and aligned NNE-SSW on its longer axis.
The southern stone. Paulie stands on the wall of the field boundary, the northern stone just to his right.
The southern stone is 100 metres south-east of the northern stone.
The northern stone leans to the north-west. It’s 2.15 metres tall.
One of the ‘lesser’ sites in Sligo, yet still well worth a visit for its simple beauty.
The boulder is held above the burial by three stones, the one on the left here utilising a padstone to keep it level. Who was the person whose remains are still interred here? Often, caught up in the marvel of their construction, I forget that I’m visiting the graves of our ancestors.
Probably lucky to be still here, given the quarrying marks. We stayed here for a bit listening to the cuckoos and other birdsong. Magical.
Standing stone in Tawnymucklagh townland, 1.3 metres tall.
The photograph, circa 1989, in the Survey of Megalithic Tombs shows a less overgrown site.
The gallery at Tawnymucklagh can just about be made out in this shot. A sad and unloved mess.
Drumanone was satisfyingly larger than I had realised, the G man included for scale.
It’s suggested that the capstone has slipped backwards somewhat off the portals, but if so, it would have to have been way forward of it’s present position as neither of the sidestones, both now inward facing, are over a metre tall and both the portal and the doorstone are over 2 metres tall.
The capstone is about 4 metres square, and ranges from a metre to .4 of a metre thick.
The capstone is hanging in there, literally – there’s a ridge, caused by flaking, on the underside and this is caught on the northern sidestone, which in turn is supported by an old piece of rail track.
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Looking west at this three metre tall standing stone.
I laughed when I first saw this from this angle.
The sidestone at the south side has a padstone keeping the roofstone level.
I love the way the sidestone here seems to have been shaped to suit the contours of the roofstone.
Inside the chamber towards the presumed backstone at the east.
Five stones in Milltown townland make up this very box-like chamber.
The roofstone is splitting on the horizontal, the sidestones are slowly collapsing under its weight.
From the bank to the south. I’d guess this is the front of the tomb.
A bullaun stone, probably from elsewhere, is at the eastern end of the chamber.
Looking back east towards the group of three stones in the same large field.
It looks like some sort of alingment, but what seems to be a track in the grass is more likely a ridge of limestone pavement protruding above the soil.
Three stones just inside the gate of the grounds of Knappogue Castle.
I’m not sure this place has ever be surveyed. It’s on the OS map and archaeology.ie, but not in the Survey of megalithic tomb of Ireland Volume 1,
I took a pano to try and show the extent of the tomb. There may be a second chamber under the tree. However, I didn’t explore the sector with the tree cover in the left of the shot here. I wasn’t anxious to overstay our welcome. We were on the land with the landowner’s permission but I have to say I found the populous of East Clare to be the most suspicious bunch I have ever met in my years of megalithic exploring. Odd.
