Craigarogan [Carn Greine, Granny’s Grave] Chambered Tomb : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Monday, 14 October 2002 Page Views: 11557

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Craigarogan Alternative Name: Carn Greine, Granny’s Grave
Country: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Antrim Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Village: Templepatrick
Map Ref: J270842
Discoverer Map Number: D15
Latitude: 54.689847N Longitude: 6.031295W
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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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MacD visited on 29th Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Now on the South Antrim Heritage Trail and marked on the OS map it's easy to find. No parking place as such but it's a quiet road and there is a grass verge. Sitting in a grassy field it looks a bit unloved but at least it's still there although not in its original state. The stone circle (more likely the kerb) referred to in earlier accounts has long gone. Excavations in early 20thc revealed an intact cremation urn, which disintegrated but has been restored and is now in the Ulster museum.

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**Craigarogan** submitted by MacD : Granny's chamber A nice little polygonal chamber topped with a big capstone. The passage is completely blocked by one of the chamber's orthostats....so is it a passage? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Granny’s Grave (which is a corruption of Grania’s Grave which is a translation of Carn Greine = Cairn of the Sun) is an overgrown, low, megalithic passage still roofed, 9 metres long, at the SW end of which is a sealed polygonal chamber which is roofed by a single stone 1.8 metres across.

It seems that the tomb was surrounded by a circular kerb, indicating that it is an unusual or transitional or degenerate form of passage-tomb in an area where there were other passage-tombs (now destroyed) built by the intruding late-Neolithic People from Britain.

~ Just over 7 km NW is the Holed Stone at Doagh.
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