Just 30m from the road this very good example of a wedge tomb is easily seen and accessed. From the gate the monument is seen side on, with the entrance aligned roughly southwest. A tree grows somewhat picturesquely from its centre.
All of the roofstones, bar one, are present and in place, including the one covering the large portico. Like many other northern wedge tombs the entrance is split by a centrally set stone. The gallery can be looked into from the rear and is full of cairn rubble.
The gallery is about 3m in length, which when added to the portico gives the tomb a total length of around 4.5m. Several boulders down each side of the mound could be either the remnants of double walling or a closely set kerb.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
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 Cloghboley (Co. Sligo) |  Carrowroe (Co. Galway) |  Carrig (Co. Wicklow) |
