Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

Close to the summit of a low hill (192m) overlooking the Black Water valley to the SW. The monument is ruined and has been partly dug out and disturbed. It consists of the remains of a gallery (L 5.2m; Wth 1m narrowing to 0.7m at E). The N side is formed of four orthostats including one transversely-set stone near the W end. Only two orthostats remain of the S side. To the S of the W of these are two buttress stones. There is a noticeable decrease in height of the gallery walls from W to E. Four outer-wall stones survive to the N of the gallery; one is almost prostrate. The area between the outer-wall and gallery side is filled with stones among which it is possible to distinguish a buttress-stone towards the W end. Two displaced slabs lie immediately W of the gallery. There is some evidence for mound to the N and S of the tomb though much of it appears to be covered by field debris and material thrown out from the earlier diggings at the monument. The gallery was formerly covered with roofstones but these were removed in the earlier 19th century (Cody 1851, 386; Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 405, Knocktopher no. 6).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 10 May 2021

References

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall.

CODY, P. 1849-51 Primaeval remains in the Mullinavat district. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland 1, 385-8.