Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

This is one of a group of three tombs (see also GA125-121---- and GA125-128----), which are situated on rolling farmland, c. 1km to the NW of Ballinlough in the NE foothills of the Slieve Aughty Mountains. This tomb comprises a ruined chamber (L c. 2m), with the entrance at SE, formed of two portal-stones and two sidestones above which rests a large roofstone: the E portal-stone and sidestone have collapsed inwards. A displaced stone lies immediately in front of the entrance and two others occupy the N end of the chamber. Traces of a low mound are discernible around the tomb. Marble Hill demesne, within which this monument formerly stood, also contained four other megalithic-type structures: see GA125-120----, GA125-123----, GA125-130---- and GA125-131----. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3 522; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 21)

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

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.

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.