<< Our Photo Pages >> Shasgar - Court Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Leitrim
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: ShasgarCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 3.323 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Leitrim Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Town: Manorhamilton Nearest Village: Rossinver
Map Ref: G896504
Discovery Map Number: D16
Latitude: 54.402106N Longitude: 8.160883W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Its gallery seems to be unsegmented, with good enty-jambs and excellent corbelling of large and small slabs in several tiers on both sides. The cairn is partly peat-covered and survives to the height of the (missing) gallery roof. The S side of the very deep (possibly Full-) court is fairly well-preserved.
~ Almost 13 kms due S, at Tullyskeherny (SE of Manorhamilton), situated in wild landscape beside a remarkable limestone outcrop resembling the Burren of county Clare (G 899369), and containing boulders and formations of bizarre shapes, many of them perforated, is a pair of court-tombs built of the same limestone crag and in places indistinguishable from it. The graves are on the same axis, and set back to back only 5 metres apart. The more northerly consists of a long cairn with remains of a long narrow forecourt leading into an antechamber and two main chambers. Beside this gallery are no fewer than 6 subsidiary chambers opening on to the long sides of the cairn, some asymmetrically arranged and on different axes to that of the cairn, which seems to have been built directly onto bedrock. Some cairn material has been used in making the nearby track.
The southerly tomb consists of a 2-chambered gallery set in a large oval cairn 24 metres long and approached through the remains of a forecourt. As with the other tomb, both forecourt and gallery are deeply embedded in the cairn, and the gallery is almost completely filled with rubble.
The site commands splendid views.
~ 12 kms SW is the wedge-tomb at Dartry, county Sligo.
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