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Knockatober : Portal Tomb

CountySligo
Grid RefG 731 271
Longitude8° 24' 43.75" W
Latitude54° 11' 31.44" N
Nearest TownCollooney (4.9 Km)
OS Sheet25
UTM zone29U
UTM x538355.2809703
UTM y6005050.9315197
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 17th August 2003

This ruin is located in a field behind Roskill National school. Today just one portal stone and a side stone remain standing. Other structural stones lie scattered around.

There are two thing worthy of note here though. The first is a very odd looking mound on the top of a bank 150m away with a tree growing from its top. The second is that every stone from the tomb is riddled with fossils. At first sight the stone looks quite horrible, but when you get close to it these tubular fossils are lovely.

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