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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Slievenagriddle Alternative Name: The Giant’s GriddleCountry: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Down Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Downpatrick
Map Ref: J528453
Discoverer Map Number: D21
Latitude: 54.333538N Longitude: 5.651673W
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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Close by at the base of Slievenagriddle is Ballyalton court-tomb, buried in a dense thorn thicket and rarely accessible. Also not far away is Loughmoney "dolmen" a remnant of a court-tomb (see picture left).
~ 1.6 km NE in Carrownacaw is “The Long Stone” a tall thin standing-stone of schist, 3.3 metres tall - and the only Irish menhir to be supported by a hawser wrapped around a tree. This is reached by a road which passes picturesque Loughmoney Dolmen: just two sidestones and a roofstone of a vanished court-tomb in a field.
~ 6.4 km NE in Audleystown, close to Strangford Lough, is a well-preserved double-court tomb built of low stones and comprising shallow forecourts, two galleries of four chambers each, a cairn some 27 metres long, and a kerb made not of orthostats, but dry-stone walling.
~ 4.4 km ENE, in the front garden of No. 109 Ballyculter Road in Churchtown, 40 metres from the road-junction at Ballyculter, is part of a natural rock-outcrop decorated with two worn sets of concentric circles – best seen when wet. One of the sets has a remarkable 10 rings, while the other has 6. These are more in the style of passage-tomb art than the usual Bronze Age rock-scribings or petroglyphs.
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