MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS
OF IRELAND.COM
OF IRELAND.COM
| MANGER MEGALITHIC TOMB |
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| This fine megalithic tomb is situated in an upland area by the roadside and is marked on the OS map as 'Ass's Manger'. The tomb, a small stone-built structure incorporated in a road-side fence at the rim of an old quarry which has been in-filled in recent years, is located on elevated arable land. It consists of a cover-slab, 2.50m in length, 2.20m in width and 0.30cm in depth, supported by a number of upright stones. Under this slab there is a chamber 0.80m in depth, open to the NE. The slab has slipped from the tops of two stones at its NE end but still rests on an upright stone and dry-walling alongside at about its mid-line. Just east of the structure there was a line, some 2.50m in length, of three upright stones only two of which are now visible. It was up until 1849 surrounded by a circle of stones and these uprights may have been those stones. |
| CO-ORDINATES 52 55' 257.8"N...7 6' 45.2"W |
