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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kilclooney More II - Portal Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Donegal

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002  Page Views: 8616

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kilclooney More II
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Donegal Type: Portal Tomb
Nearest Town: Ardara  Nearest Village: Narin
Map Ref: G7220796721
Discovery Map Number: D10
Latitude: 54.817547N  Longitude: 8.433082W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
3 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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Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by Anthony_Weir : (Vote or comment on this photo)
Portal Tomb in Co. Donegal. In fact, 2 portal tombs at either end of the same long cairn. Approached via a grassy lane behind Kilclooney Church, the larger of the tombs changes shape as you go round it: now a Mexican hat on legs, now a wingless bird or Concorde aircraft.

Portal-stones 1.8 metres high support a massive roofstone 6 metres across. Between the backstone and the roofstone is a fine example of a chocking-stone set to get the characteristic angle of tilt just right.

The small tomb, at the other end of the remains of the cairn, still has 2 sidestones, an inset backstone and one portal-stone, and is roofed with a horizontal slab. Both tombs have low sillstones at the entrance to E-facing chambers.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KenWilliams : Kilclooney More portal tombs, photographed on a fine evening Sept 3rd 2005. The smaller tomb is visible left of the rear of the larger tomb. (6 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kilclooney More II submitted by DrewParsons : September 2008. The larger of the two tombs. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by KenWilliams : I've had great difficulty getting this photo to work in colour properly, should have just gone B&W to start with! (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by DrewParsons : Kilclooney Portal Tomb in October 2008 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by Sunny100 : The Kilclooney More II portal dolmen/tomb near Ardara dates from the Neolithic Age 2,000-3,000 BC. It's giant 14 foot capstone is supported by two 1.8 metre high up-rights. This one is interesting because it retains its chock-stone - which enabled the builders to get the correct position/angle. Next to it, at the other end of the long cairn, a smaller tomb is partly collapsed. It has a lintel ston...

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony More II portal tomb. (2 comments)

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The kilcloony More II portal tomb.

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann (1 comment)

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : Kilcloony Moore II, the second part of the dolmen.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony Moore II dolmen, with an evil knight in the chamber.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by Flickr : Kilclooney Dolmen Image copyright: Ralf Siegel Photography (Ralf Siegel), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony More II portal tomb.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The two parts of the portal tomb.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony Moore II dolmen, with me as a size comparison. (1 comment)

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony Moore II , the second part of the dolmen.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by DrewParsons : Kilclooney Portal Tomb with the minor tomb in the foreground in October 2008

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Kilclooney More II submitted by Flickr : Kilclooney dolmen, County Donegal Image copyright: Erik's pictures, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony More II portal tomb.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann

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Kilclooney More II submitted by KaiHofmann : The Kilcloony More II portal tomb from inside.

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Kilclooney More II submitted by cakey : The magnificent Kilclooney More Co Donegal

Kilclooney More II
Kilclooney More II submitted by DrewParsons : Kilclooney minor tomb adjacent to the main Kilclooney Portal Tomb in October 2008

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Re: Kilclooney More II by LittleDragon on Wednesday, 21 September 2022
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I made this film exploring the Dolmen on Kilclooney More: This is a link Embed:
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Re: Kilclooney More II by Runemage on Monday, 01 April 2019
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VR panorama of the dolmen and the nearby collapsed dolmen https://voicesfromthedawn.com/kilclooney-dolmen/

360 degree view of the dolmen is further down that page.
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Re: Kilclooney More II by Andy B on Sunday, 06 May 2018
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Class Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Townland KILCLOONEY MORE
SMR No. DG073-004----
Description This monument is 500m E of the last (Dg. 69), on a gently undulating expanse of bog broken by occurrences of outcropping rock, and lies 2.6km NE of the inner end of Loughros More Bay. The monument consists of the remains of two portal tomb chambers, one just over 9m behind the other, in the slight remains of a long mound aligned NNE-SSW. One chamber, orientated NE-SW, stands 5m from the NNE end of the mound. The other, a very small one, is 5.5m from the SSW end of the mound, the orientation of which it shares. The circle of stones that Borlase (1897, 240) claimed surrounded the larger chamber is not apparent. The mound, trapezoidal in outline, measures 26m NE-SW, narrows from c. 17m at the NE to c. 8m at the SW and is c. 0.8m in overall height. A modern field wall runs NW-SE across the mound between the two chambers. The north-eastern chamber The north-eastern chamber is well preserved. It is c. 2m long and 1.4m wide internally. Its present floor is up to 0.4m below the surface of the surrounding mound. The entrance to the chamber, at the NE, is formed by two longitudinally set portal-stones with an intervening sillstone. A single stone, more or less in line with the adjoining portal-stone, forms each side of the chamber. A tall stone at the SW and a lesser stone beside it mark the back of the chamber. The sidestones overlap the outer end of each. On the ground immediately outside the southern end of the western sidestone is a large wedge-shaped slab, perhaps a slipped corbel. Originally it may have rested on the sidestone. A massive roofstone covers the chamber. It rests on a pad-stone on top of the backstone and on the two portal-stones. The two portal-stones are well-matched slabs. The gap between them is 0.7m wide at their outer ends and increases to lm toward the interior. The eastern one, a more or less flat-topped stone, is 1.8m high. The western one, the top half of which slopes down toward the back of the chamber, is also 1.8m high. Both rise c. 1.lm above the largely flat-topped sillstone. This stone is 0.6m high except over the easternmost one-quarter of its length, which is 0.1m lower than the rest. The eastern sidestone, the top of which is lm below that of the adjacent portal-stone, is 0.7m high at its inner face. The western sidestone decreases in height from 1.2m at its outer end to 0.9m at its inner end. The possible slipped corbel outside the end of this measures 1.6m by 0.9m and varies from 0.1m to 0.4m thick. The small orthostat between the western sidestone and the backstone is 1.1m high at its inner face. The backstone, lozenge shaped in plan, is 1.3m high. The pad-stone on the backstone measures 0.35m by 0.3m and is 0.15m thick. The portal-stones rise 0.3m above the top of the pad-stone, thus causing the roof stone to slope down from front to rear. The roofstone is 4.2m in overall length. It is 3.7m wide at the front and for just over the initial one-third of its length is not less than 3.5m wide. It narrows steadily beyond this and is c. lm wide at the back. It is 0.7m thick at the front, increases to a maximum of 0.9m above the portal-stones and decreases steadily beyond that to 0.3m at the back. The two supposed cupmarks on the upper surface of this stone (Borlase 1897, 239; Crozier 1957, 66) are not convincing and may be natural. Small sherds of plain Neolithic pottery—three in all according to A.T. Lucas (1960, 18), five according to Herity (1964, 138; 1982, 319)—picked from the floor of this chamber were acquired by the National Museum in 1958. The south-western chamber The smaller chamber is 1.5m long and lm wide internally. A fill of loose stones on the floor of the chamber obscures the lowermost 0.2-0.3m of the stones shown on the sectional profile. The entrance to the chamber consists of two well-matched, longitudinally set portal-stones with a sillstone between their inner ends. A single stone forms each side of the chamber, the eastern one in line with the portal-ston

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