Portal Tomb by Aughadanove
The Portal Tomb of Aughadanove (also called "The Oul Grave") is located in Mullaghbane, in a fence on a southwest slope west of Slieve Gullion in the south of County Armagh in Northern Ireland . As portal Tombs be megalithic on the British Isles referred to in which two equally high upright stones therebetween with a door stone which form the front of a chamber which is covered with a massive part endstone. The facility is a Scheduled Historic Monument .
The chamber without a capstone consists of two large slabs about 1.25 m high and 2.0 m long and an end stone of 1.0 m³. The two portal stones, between which there is a 0.45 m high door stone, are approximately 1.3 and 1.05 m high. The chamber measures approximately 1.3 x 1.2 m.
Remnants of the cairn are present. A 0.45 m high stone, about 4.5 m in front of the portals, is firmly embedded and possibly part of the actual monument. The chamber is partially filled with small stones and debris.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 30 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 21 ″ W.