Home

Who
What
Where
When
Why
Townleyhall Passage Tomb
 

County

Louth

Coordinates

N 53° 43' 16.2"   W 006° 27' 04.4"

Nearest town

Drogheda

Grid Ref.

O 02291 75710

Map No.

43

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

56

Date of visit

Monday 18 May 2009

GPS Accuracy (m)

5
Show Google Map              Show Monuments in the area

    
 
PREVIOUS      NEXT
The neat passage of the tomb.


This passage tomb is well preserved and has an important section of the original cairn still present. It is part of the large group of passage tombs in the Boyne Valley that also includes Newgrange, Dowth and Knowth which are less than 3 km away. The mound is about 1.20 metres high and has an approximate diameter of 13 metres. Two large slabs 1 metre tall close the burial chamber. The gallery is 5 metres long and 3.5 metres wide. On one side of the gallery there two upright stones 80 centimetres and 1.1 metres tall respectively. The passage is aligned to the northeast (50°).
The cairn is surrounded by 16 round-shaped small kerb stones and is protected inside a fence that is 20 metres in diameter.


Browse by Monument Type
Browse by County
Browse by Date of Visit
Browse by Map Number

A-Z List

Clickable Counties
Clickable OS Maps Grid

Find a Map

Multimap

The days before GPS

The Stones in the Movies

Glossary
Links
Guestbook
FAQ

What's NEW?


Search


Site view counter: 24635218

Copyright © 1994-2024 Antonio D'Imperio
All the photos, the graphics and the texts on this website are automatically copyrighted to me under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886. Any violation of the copyright will be pursued according to the applicable laws.

info@irishstones.org

Powered by AxeCMS/CustomEngine(V0.25.00 build 999) by Sergio "Axeman" Lorenzetti. (C) 2009-2015

counter