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Doogort West : Portal Tomb

CountyMayo
Grid RefF 652 072
Longitude10° 3' 20.87" W
Latitude53° 59' 47" N
Nearest TownDoagh (5.2 Km)
OS Sheets30, 22
UTM zone29U
UTM x430788.2078022
UTM y5983635.7440653
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 6th July 2003

These massive slabs are just visible from Keel East (County Mayo) if you face down the hill and look at 45 degrees to the left. Getting to them requires climbing over a couple of barbed wire fences though.

It is a very ruined structure, but what remains hints at a once very impressive monument. It too, like the nearby tombs of Keel East faces up into the mountain side. All that now stands is one 2m+ tall portal stone and the wall stone of the same side. This is set slightly outside the line of the portal stone. Another slab rests against these and could be the stump of the other portal stone or a bit of the other wall.

To the rear, resting on the possible remians of the cairn is a huge slab, that could well be the roofslab.

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