Megalithic tomb - court tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

In pastureland with outcropping rock, some 350m to the S of the seashore at the inner reaches of Mweeloon Bay. This tomb comprised the ruins of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned NW-SE, divided into two chambers by a sill-stone. The entrance, at SE, was between two jambs; the N jamb was flanked by a single courtstone. A large displaced stone, possibly a roofstone, lay in the front chamber. The tomb was bulldozed during the course of land clearance in 1964. The orthostats were pushed to the fence at the N boundary of the field. (Holt 1912, 249-50; McCaffrey 1952, 11-12; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 15-16)

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 19 August 2019

References

de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.