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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Farranmacbride Alternative Name: Munnernamortee CaveCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Donegal Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Village: Glencolumbcille
Map Ref: G534854
Discovery Map Number: D10
Latitude: 54.714465N Longitude: 8.723796W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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Court Tomb in Co. Donegal. Glencolumbcille is famous for its turas, or devotional pattern on the 9th of June, along a given route which is punctuated by stations. Most of the stations feature beautiful early-christian cross-slabs and cairns, but two are in fact megalithic tombs. The one in Farranmacbride (the ninth station, 400 metres N of the church of Glencolumbcille) , close to a perforated standing-stone "through which Heaven may be glimpsed" by the pure - or devout - "and barren women made fertile", is a huge ruined court-tomb, some of whose chambers have been used as livestock pens. Two large twin-chambered galleries open on to a central court about 21 metres in diameter (the longest in Ireland) - most of whose orthostats are missing. The SW area of the court is crossed by a sunken track. Three subsidiary chambers are set around the court, occurring more or less where the façades of facing single-court tombs would have ended. This tombs seems to be one of the many "experimental" or "culturally-diverse" in the NW, and has some similarities with those at Tullyskeherny in county Leitrim.
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