tombs around armagh

Annaghmare is one of the best built of all the court-tombs in Ulster. High quality masonry can be seen in the horizontal drystone walling between the uprights of the more than semicircular forecourt, which leads into a long triple-chambered burial gallery. The stone mound surrounding this gallery was later extended to enclose two further burial chambers entered from the side of the cairn.

Careful excavations in 1963-64 produced the inhumed remains of two individuals and the cremated bo...