Dromore Big

Nearest town:
Randalstown (22km NW)
Latitude:
54° 34' 59.28 N
Longitude:
7° 44' 11.34 W
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Image of Dromore Big (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking out from the chamber/s – one of the oddest monuments I’ve seen.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Mar 14, 2022
Image of Dromore Big (Court Tomb) by ryaner

Looking south – the chamber/s are to the right, the stone on the left is a loose boulder, I think.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Mar 14, 2022

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Dromore Big

ryaner
ryaner Mar 24, 2022

This is a sorry sight these days. We drove along the farm track – I knew there were farm buildings close by – and we were ready to ask for permission. We met a farm worker, not the owner, and he said go ahead. The photo on the NISMR shows the lintel and jambstones in a clearing and I had hopes that we were in for a bit of a treat. Alas no – were we here any later in the year it seems that we wouldn’t get to see anything.

The beautiful altar-like entrance, with one metre tall entrance jambstones both flanked by other supporting orthostats, all covered by a lintel, is all that’s visible and identifiable. The whole area is trashy, unkempt and unloved. On the plan at the NISMR, three stones form the southern gallery walls, with a laterally placed stone forming a sill and separating it into two chambers and then a backstone sealing the rear. All this was hard to check out with all the growth and detritus about the place.

It was one of those places that I didn’t feel like hanging around in, frustrated that the landowners so transparently don’t seem to care about the monument on their land, but not wishing to have a confrontation about the neglect.

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