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<< Text Pages >> Druid's Altar (Clooncoe) - Cist in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Leitrim

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Druid's Altar (Clooncoe) Alternative Name: Clooncoe Cist
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 8.058 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Co. Leitrim Type: Cist
 Nearest Village: Mohill
Latitude: 53.881781N  Longitude: 7.840317W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Cist in Co. Leitrim

The Journal of Antiquities gives the Irish grid reference of N 1046 9305 for this site, which lies in the wooded grounds of the Loch Rynn Castle estate, "situated beside a pathway beneath trees not far from the south-western shore of the small round-shaped Lough Errew (Erril) and close to the eastern shoreline of the much larger Lough Rynn and, the elongated Lough Clooncoe is just to the south, while the village of Mohill is two and a half miles to the north on the R202 road". See their entry for Druid’s Altar, Clooncoe, Co. Leitrim, Southern Ireland for more details and a list of reference sources.

The Journal and Megalithomania: Clooncoe Kist tell us that this cist curiously resembles a table and chair with a very large recumbent capstone 1.8m in width (but which may have originally stood upright). The Irish Megaliths entry for Clooncoe says this is "is a mysterious megalith, like a kist-tomb with attached standing-stone/grave-marker. A roof-slab 1.8 metres square is supported on low stones to form a small chamber. Adjoining the E end is a leaning, round-topped slab 2.2 metres tall and 1.3 metres wide, giving the megalith the appearance of a chair".

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Lough Rhyn hotel
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Fireplace in the lounge at Lough Rhyn hotel

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