<< Text Pages >> Croaghbeg - Court Tomb in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Donegal
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Croaghbeg Alternative Name: Pontabane CarnCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 6.287 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Donegal Type: Court Tomb
Map Ref: G646751
Latitude: 54.622857N Longitude: 8.548779W
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 |
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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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Court Tomb in Co. Donegal. This court tomb has fine megalithic lintelled portals and two-chambered galleries. Much of the cairn survives. It has a fine court of handsome orthostats set close together and decreasing in height towards the extremities. The gallery is also impressive, with massive back-and side-stone corbels, lintels and jambs. On the N side of the court is a single subsidiary chamber with jambs and backstone, and, as in the gallery, sill-stones between the jambs. An interesting feature of the court is the double coursing of the stones nearest the entrance, matching the height of the impressive lintel. The tomb is a fine experiment in the development of Irish court-tombs.
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