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2026:262 - Annagh More, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: Annagh More

Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA038-001----

Licence number: 26E0188

Author: Leo Morahan

Author/Organisation Address: Roscrea, Moyard, Co. Galway

Site type: Court tomb

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 508209m, N 816832m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 46.488181, -15.817314

The landowner has a wonderful dual- court tomb (MA038-001—-) on her lands and wished to have excess vegetation cleared to make it more visible and more accessible. Whitethorn and blackthorn bushes were pruned and briars sheared at the base and all grass cut by strimmer. Following the work it was possible to compare with plan drawn by de Valera and Ó Nuallain in 1964 displaying a court and gallery at the east end and two galleries in the west sector. A dotted line demarcating a pronounced edge to the megalithic cairn on the original plan cannot be clearly made out today. There were no ground works at the site.


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