<< Our Photo Pages >> Dolmen Of The Four Maols - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Mayo
Submitted by macd on Thursday, 01 September 2016 Page Views: 9359
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dolmen Of The Four MaolsCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Mayo Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Ballina Nearest Village: Ballina
Latitude: 54.107043N Longitude: 9.165801W
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 |
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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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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macd visited on 28th Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 If you can ignore its surroundings (an industrial estate and a road with telegraph poles running alongside) this is a nice site, though I suspect it was once a great deal finer. There is easy access from the road via a grassy path into a small field between the industrial estate and the road (Primrose Hill). Although it is known as the Dolmen of the Four Maols (Brothers) because of a local legend, I think this is the last remains of a larger structure, perhaps just the back of a chamber which would have faced roughly to the SE. Another large stone sits a few metres away in this direction and another can be seen a bit further away, flat in the grass. Walking over the site I could feel other stones. Could this once have been a court tomb? Geophys would help categorise the monument.
The drill holes in the capstone in a hexagon pattern and drill holes on the separate stone suggest someone has dried to blow this megalith apart, and the damaged single stone suggests they were partly successful. Nevertheless, on a sunny afternoon this site was still impressive. There is an information panel at the end of the path.
PS It's in much better surroundings now, in a nice grassy paddock.
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There is easy access from the road via a grassy path into a small field between the industrial estate and the road (Primrose Hill). Although it is known as the Dolmen of the Four Maols (Brothers) because of a local legend, I think this is the last remains of a larger structure, perhaps just the back of a chamber which would have faced roughly to the SE. Another large stone sits a few metres away in this direction and another can be seen a bit further away, flat in the grass.
Walking over the site I could feel other stones. Could this once have been a court tomb? Geophys would help categorise the monument. The drill holes in the capstone in a hexagon pattern and drill holes on the separate stone suggest someone has dried to blow this megalith apart, and the damaged single stone suggests they were partly successful. Nevertheless, on a sunny afternoon this site was still impressive. There is an information panel at the end of the path. PS It's in much better surroundings now, in a nice grassy paddock.
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