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Ballynoe Portal Tomb
 

County

Carlow

Coordinates

N 52° 46' 00.9"   W 006° 43' 57.0"

Nearest town

Tullow

Grid Ref.

S 85607 69144

Map No.

61

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

64

Date of visit

Wednesday 26 May 2010

GPS Accuracy (m)

5
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Some of the scattered stones at the limit of the cairn. The main portal tomb is visible at the top of the photo.


This fine portal tomb is at the end of a farm track that runs through a closed court. We drove through this court and stopped the car at the end of the track, after 1 km.

The portal tomb stands on a little mound that seems to hide more tombs. At a certain distance from the main tomb some other stones are scattered around and seem to delimit a cairn. The capstone of the tomb has a weird pattern of grooves on it, and these grooves make the capstone look like a tortoise shell. The north portal stone has collapsed inwards and the capstone leans on it.
The tomb is about 3 metres long and wide and 1.90 metres tall.
The entrance faces northeast (60°).

Some thirty metres west from the tomb flows the Derreen river and some cows were grazing on its bank.


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