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  • Kilfeaghan Portal Tomb

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Archaeology & Monuments

    Kilfeaghan Road
    Newry
    BT34 3AE
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: During opening hours (please check DiscoverNI website, charges may apply)
    Grid reference: J2322015350
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: DOW 055:018
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Kilfeaghan Portal Tomb

    This portal tomb is at the north end of a long cairn, once much larger than is now visible, originally extending south downhill for 80–90ft (24.5–27.5m). The gigantic granite capstone is estimated to weigh some 35 tons and it may have been an erratic boulder already on the site, undermined and propped up with portal and side stones to form this spectacular dolmen. Excavation early in the 20th century discovered bone and pottery.

    Other historic places you can visit:

    • Love Heritage NI
    Kilfeaghan Portal Tomb
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