What is recorded here

Cromlech stood on a NW-facing slope above Ballyvaughan valley, a stone table raised three feet on four pedestals before destruction erased it from the land. The 1842 map still named the place, but by 1916 even that certainty had faded into “site of,” and a 1998 search found no trace beneath the scrub. What remained was a gap shaped like a chamber, waiting for someone to imagine the dead who gathered around its edges.

On a NW-facing slope, under scrub and on the E side of Ballyvaughan valley. Indicated and named ‘Cromlech’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Cromlech (site of)’ on the 1916 ed. It was destroyed before Westropp’s time (1901, 282) but was recorded in the O.S. Memoranda (1840) as ‘composed of large flags placed on four pedestals resembling a table of stone. The top 3 feet over the ground’ (DeValera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 92). Inspection in 1998 failed to locate any surface trace of the monument. While the OS (1840) description is not sufficient to differentiate the class of this monument, it was almost certainly a megalith and probably either a portal or wedge tomb. The site of an enclosure (CL005-053001-) is located c. 10m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 8 June 2022

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period. Its original structure and specific significance have been lost due to destruction, but such monuments were typically used for burial and ritual purposes in early Irish prehistory.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.