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Magheravall Portal Tomb
 

County

Donegal

Coordinates

N 54° 51' 13.4"   W 007° 47' 29.3"

Nearest town

Stranorlar

Grid Ref.

C 13443 00685

Map No.

6

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

178

Date of visit

Tuesday 26 May 2009

GPS Accuracy (m)

6
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The entrance of this portal tomb faces north. The red and yellow stick is 1 metre long, for scale.


In a remote part of the countryside there's this huge portal tomb. The conditions aren't great, most of the monument is missing, but it's still a fantastic site. It's just 6 metres from the road, in a pasture.
The two portal stones are very tall, the right one has a height of 2.70 metres, the tomb is 2.20 metres wide and 3.90 metres long.
The monument is perfectly aligned north-south, with the entrance facing north.
All around it just sheep and silence. The wind is pretty strong and this should be the reason for the presence of the numerous windmill generators on the surrounding hills.


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