Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

On rolling pasture about 600m W of Lough Gara. A W-facing gallery (min. L 6.7m) is divided by a septal-stone into a portico and main chamber and is surrounded by the remains of an outer-wall. The structure, which is built with quite small orthostats, stands in a low mound (10m E-W; max. 8m N-S; H 0.5m). The portico (L 1.5m) is formed by two stones at the S and another, now fallen, at the N side. The septal-stone is broken in two pieces. Between the N end of the septal-stone and the N side of the main chamber there is a small stone. The main chamber (min. L 5m; Wth 1.2m at septal-stone, 0.9m towards opposite end) is represented by six stones to the N and five to the S. At the inner end of the S side there is a partly buried stone of uncertain function. There is a displaced stone about mid-way along the main chamber. The outer-wall at the N is represented by seven stones and that at the S also by seven stones. A partly buried stone immediately outside the easternmost outer-wall stone at the S seems to be prostrate. The back of the outer-walling is represented by a single orthostat. Two facade-stones, both fallen to W, linked the southern outer-wall to the front of the portico. A single facade-stone, a thin slab, stands just forward of the northern outer-wall. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 80-81, no. 127)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)