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Ballymarlagh : Court Tomb

CountyAntrim
Grid RefD 141 018
GPSD 14029 01778 (4m)
Longitude6° 13' 28.01" W
Latitude54° 51' 2.6" N
Nearest TownBallymena (3.9 Km)
OS Sheet9
UTM zone29U
UTM x678183.05343805
UTM y6081710.2248625
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 1st December 2002

Found, excavated, fenced in and forgotten about! What a shame, because while rooting around in the undergrowth and amongst the saplings that now cover the fairly extensive cairn remains we found that there is infact a 4-5m gallery, segmented with at least one sill stone. One court stone was just visible from outside the enclosure (which features a lethal style for climbing over the fence!).

If this was cleared and maintained it would be a good and easily visitable monument. I've certainly been to ones that are a lot worse!

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Sunday, 27th January 2008

I recently came across some photos of this site having just been cleared and it looked great. The images weren't dated, so I had to come and check the site out to see if they were recent. They aren't. In fact I think they predate my previous visit to the site.

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Directions

From Ballymena take the A36 east for just over 1km past the large island where it meets the M2. Take a left hand turn next to a church. After about 400m there is a gate on the right hand side of the road. Go through this gate and walk up the slope, following the hedge. At the crown you will reach a fenced enclosure which contains the overgrown tomb.

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9 Km (NNE) there is a Court Tomb at Loughconnelly.
6.3 Km (SSE) there is a Standing Stone at Carncome.
6.5 Km (NNW) there is a Standing Stone at Craigywarren.
8.6 Km (NE) there is a Church at Skerry.


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