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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Annaghmare Alternative Name: The Black CastleCountry: Ireland (Northern)
NOTE: This site is 8.099 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Armagh Type: Court Tomb
Nearest Village: Crossmaglen
Map Ref: H9049017820
Discoverer Map Number: D29
Latitude: 54.101580N Longitude: 6.617451W
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The most westerly of a group of monuments around the sacred mountain of Slieve Gullion, this is a very fine, excavated example of a single-court tomb, whose out-of-line, south-facing, horseshoe-shaped court is very well preserved. It is over 8 metres in diameter, with walls of large orthostats alternating with sections of good dry-walling: a typical “post-and-panel” construction. Such a forecourt might well have had special acoustical properties important in ritual.
The gallery is 7 metres long, segmented by jambs (one of which has an uncompleted cup-mark) into 3 chambers. Much of the cairn (which is nearly 20 metres long) survives to a height of 1.8 metres. Two lateral chambers at the N end of the cairn were built a little later than the rest of the tomb, and have independent entrances. The siting of the tomb on a rock outcrop is unusual.
SMR Number ARM 027:007
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