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Calliagh: Wedge-tomb
About 8 km SSW of Monaghan town, on top of a drumlin (hillock) about 250 metres NE of a transmitter, beside an old laneway leading N from a by-road from which the tomb is visiblke, this tomb is ruined but interesting. It is built of large stones, and has a gallery 7.5 metres long, with remains of double walling on the S side. Roofstones have been displaced. To the S of the entrance, and within the area of the cairn (some of which survives), is a large and tall stone of unexplained significance. ~ 4 km WSW is Garran portal-tomb.
Edergole: Court-tomb
Just over 3 km NNE of Rockcorry, 400 metres W of Edergole school, by the N side of a by-road which has cut through the tomb, part of it is incorporated in the road-fence. Part of the gallery, however, composed of very large boulders, survives - plus one roofstone 2.1 metres square, raised on jambs to a height of 1.5 metres. The SW end of the gallery, and the court, have been swallowed up by the road. It is very surprising that anything of the tomb at all remains, because many such tombs (perhaps dozens or scores) were demolished to provide road material and stones for other edifices.
Garran: Portal-tomb
About 50 metres W of the Monaghan-Newbliss road, behind a two-storey house some 8 km NE of Newbliss, the chamber of this tomb remains intact despite the slipping of the large capstone, 2.4 metres long and 1 metre thick. It is composed of eight stones, including two portal-stones 1.5 metres high, enclosing a space 1.8 metres by 90 cms. ~ 1.5 km E by N and about 50 metres N of a lane in Carn (H 611 258) is a court-tomb with a wedge-shaped cairn 35 metres long. The façade of the court is well-preserved, with large orthostats flanking the portal-stones. The lintel over the entrance lies in the first chamber of the three-chamber gallery. ~ About 3.2 km N by E of Garran portal-tomb, in a field at the end of a farm lane running W from the main road in Tiredegan (H 602 286) is a double-court tomb, much of whose cairn survives to a height of over one metre. Some of the stones of the E court still stand, and a large lintel still rests on the portal-stones. Only one large chamber (1.8 metres wide and 5 metres long) is traceable: details of the W end of the tomb are obscured by cairn material. Some of the kerb on the S side projects above cairn-spill. ~ 6.5km NNW of Garran portal-tomb in Clogherna (pronounced 'Clarna', H 580 287) is another double-court tomb, rather ruined, but retaining one of its galleries, over 5 metres long and composed of large orthostats including a backstone 1.2 metres high.
Mullyash: Passage-tomb
Easily accessible by a forest track, but regrettably surrounded by dreary exotic conifers, this tomb commanded magnificent vistas before forestation: to
Slieve Gullion, Loughcrew
, the Mourne and Carlingford Mountains. The site was until circa 1950 a site for Lughnasa celebrations. A standing-stone, probably once connected with the celebrations lies broken (by Christians in a long, but erratic, tradition of smashing 'idols'?) some 200 metres W. A stepped, two-tiered cairn with some of its original facing intact, and closely resembling that of Newgrange before it was tarted up, almost certainly contains a passage-tomb.
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