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Drumany : Portal Tomb

CountyLeitrim
Grid RefH 073 098
Longitude7° 53' 18.84" W
Latitude54° 2' 14.21" N
Nearest TownBallinamore (6 Km)
OS Sheets27A, 33
UTM zone29U
UTM x572787.3451829
UTM y5988240.8703136
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 13th October 2002

This little portal tomb is pretty fair condition, its only 'disfigurement' being that the capstone has slipped slighty back off the portal stones, which are just 1.6m tall.

Due to the tomb being incorporated into a field wall and almost smothered by trees it is very difficult to really see the thing as a whole, but what you can see is very good.

Between the two very even portal stones is a low door stone and the slabs forming the chamber are still in place. The portal faces north west.

The chamber itself is very small, just 1.7m long (from back to front of the portal stones and 80cm wide, making this tomb a very small example.

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