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Mullaghboy : Court Tomb

CountyCavan
Grid RefH 070 330
Longitude7° 53' 33.39" W
Latitude54° 14' 44.64" N
Nearest TownSwanlinbar (13.6 Km)
OS Sheet26
UTM zone29U
UTM x572159.35232988
UTM y6011428.5841467
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 17th March 2007

For some odd reason I left my GPS in the car, so I don't have a reading for this site. As I approached across the field I at first thought that I was heading for a large earthfast rock with a large slab leaning against it. This wasn't promising. However the tomb lies beyond this and is in fairly good condition. There is a lot of cairn material around the gallery. Sadly the gallery is very overgrown. From what I could see there is quite a bit of it still there.

The court is at the west end of the long cairn. This is rather confusing, because the stones don't seem to form a definite shape. It may even be that there is a second, shallow court built across the original wider court. Most odd.

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