cairn armagh

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This is a collapsed dolmen of large stones placed within an almost circular cairn about 4ft high. An excavation in 1934 was unrewarding because of earlier disturbance....

On the south summit is a cairn containing what is claimed to be the highest passage-tomb in Britain or Ireland. A 25-ft long lintelled passage, originally even longer, leads to an octagonal chamber constructed of upright stones which bore a now vanished corbelled roof. Excavations in 1961 showed cremation to have been the dominant burial rite practised in the tomb. Furthermore north, and at a level around 140 ft lower, is the north cairn, which contained two cists for the burial of cremated r...

Sited typically near a stream, the outstanding feature of this megalith is the dolmen of three uprights supporting a capstone (re-erected after an excavation in 1965) and closed by the (also reinstated) portal closing stone. The dolmen stands at the southern end of a 90ft long rectangular cairn of stones, at the other end of which was an apparently contemporary burial cist (no longer visible). No trace of burials was found, but Neolithic pottery was recovered in some quantity....