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Ballymacgibbon Cairn
 

County

Mayo

Coordinates

N 53° 32' 31.74"   W 009° 14' 13.98"

Nearest town

Cong

Grid Ref.

M 17998 55402

Map No.

38

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

40

Date of visit

Thursday 18 September 2003

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
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The circular pile of stone on the top of the cairn.


Right in the middle of a field plot is this cairn, that we already visited on April 26th, 1997.

This monument presents two different sections. The lower one is a very steep pile of rocks, the cairn itself, with a diameter at the base of around 16 metres, and a height of 10 metres. And the upper one, a more circular and regular pile of stones, resembling a small tower, with a diameter of about 2.50 metres and a height af 1.80 metres.
The access to the top of the cairn is from the southwest.

UPDATE: June 24th, 2015 - A new visit to Ballymacgibbon Cairn, but the weather is the same as 12 years ago.
Climbing up there is a bit tricky, the stones move very easily. Atop the cairn there's a weird circular pile of stones, about 1.60 metres high.

The first two photos in this page are from the visit in 2003, the remaining seven are from the visit in 2015.


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