Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

In rolling hilly pastureland, some 210m to the S of a portal-tomb (GA125-119----). This tomb comprises the ruins of a long narrow gallery (L 10m) aligned NE-SW. A septal-stone at SW separates a short portico (L c. 1.4m) from the remainder of the gallery (L 7.2m) of which six sidestones are in position at N, five at S, and a backstone at E. Two roofstones rest in a sloping position above the gallery walls. A single upright stone at N forms a doubling of the wall and a line of five stones to the S of the gallery may be the remains of an outer wall. The gallery is incorporated in an irregularly shaped mound on which lie a number of displaced slabs. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3 22; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 21-2)

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.

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.