This little wedge tomb is dominated by the nearby cairn ( Leana (County Clare)). The two monuments look down upon the tombs at Parknabinnia (County Clare) and can be seen from them.
The gallery is aligned roughly north-south. All four walls are in place and buried quite high in the cairn. The inside of the gallery is fairly clear. The roof stone is almost in place and just tipped up at a funny angle, half in, half out of the tomb.
At the north end there are two overlapping stones blocking the entrance just as at the main Parknabinnia site.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Marblehill North (Co. Galway) |  Giant's Leap (Co. Cavan) |  Dunnamore (Co. Tyrone) |
 Magheraghanrush (Co. Sligo) |  Parknabinnia (Co. Clare) |  Dromagorteen (Co. Kerry) |
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This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide. Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate. Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies. The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out. UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system. ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps. |
