Aghnacliff

Also known as:
Aughnacliffe
Nearest town:
Arvagh (9km N)
OS reference:
N263887
OS sheet:
34
Latitude:
53° 50' 49.46 N
Longitude:
7° 36' 1.3 W
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Images

Image of Aghnacliff (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

From this angle it looks like it shouldn’t exist.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Apr 15, 2019
Image of Aghnacliff (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

That point where the upper capstone touches and presses down on the remaining portal stone.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Apr 15, 2019
Image of Aghnacliff (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

13 years since I was last here, still unforgettably stupendous.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Apr 15, 2019
Image of Aghnacliff (Portal Tomb) by ryaner

From this angle, the top stone looks as if it could fall at any moment

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Nov 5, 2006
Image of Aghnacliff (Portal Tomb) by CianMcLiam

This portal tomb changes its shape from every angle, even when looking from a lower angle!

Image credit: Ken Williams (CianMcLiam)
CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Feb 6, 2005

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Aghnacliff
Portal Tomb
tjj
tjj Feb 21, 2010

A verse taken from poem by Tom Murtagh
“My Loved Colmcille”

“When I think of it now sure my memory recalls
Pulliness, Pullaveeny, the lonely Four Walls;
The stately old Cromlech, och! oft I was told
It was lofted at ease by giants of old.
The hill by the church where we climbed long ago
To view the wide world in the valleys below,
Little homes and boreens and the rivers that spill
In the sylvan lagoon of my loved Colmcille”

Source: “A path through Colmcille”, compiled by Owen Denneny

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Portal tomb at Aughnacliffe 3
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tjj
Mar 2009
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Jane
Jane
Feb 2005

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