Celtic Sunset

Ballykeel Portal Tomb, Armagh

Sited typically near a stream, the outstanding feature of this megalith is the dolmen of three uprights supporting a capstone (re-erected after an excavation in 1965) and closed by the (also reinstated) portal closing stone. The dolmen stands at the southern end of a 90ft long rectangular cairn of stones, at the other end of which was an apparently contemporary burial cist (no longer visible). No trace of burials was found, but Neolithic pottery was recovered in some quantity.