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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: KilfeaghanCountry: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Down Type: Portal Tomb
Nearest Town: Kilkeel Nearest Village: Rostrevor
Map Ref: J232154
Discoverer Map Number: D29
Latitude: 54.073068N Longitude: 6.118665W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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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 |
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Off a lane leading N from the Newry-Kilkeel road, this granite dolmen looks like a giant tortoise, with a big capstone 2 metres long and 1 metre thick, and orthostats half buried in field stones and cairn material. An early account states that the cairn (now mostly disappeared) extended for over 7 metres in front of the N-facing chamber, so that there might once have been a façade similar to that of the court-tombs.
~ 5.6 miles E by S, in Dunnaman just to the E of a churchyard behind the hamlet of Massfort are the sizeable remains of a court-tomb with a 4-chambered gallery but no surviving forecourt or cairn.
~ 7.6 km E by S, in a hidden tarred lane in Kilkeel, approached through a garage on the N side of the main street, or via Cromlech Park to the E of the road to Hilltown, this little dolmen is quaint and impressive, though incorporated into a hedge and fence. Known as "The Crawtree [Elder] Stone" it is over 2 metres high, with a capstone
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