What is recorded here

Half the tomb has vanished into a farm fence, yet two matched portal stones still guard the narrow chamber where the dead slept. The missing roof slab lies crashed inside like a tongue fallen from a giant's mouth, giving the grave its name and its danger. People may have built the chamber before writing existed, then forgotten the names of everyone buried beneath it.

On N side of a shallow valley 1.6km SE of Renvyle Point. The tomb consists of a gallery (L 4.2m) aligned NE-SW. Entrance to the gallery at NE is by two tall, well-matched portal stones. Little of S side of the gallery survives and N side is incorporated in a fence. The large slab lying within the gallery area and resting on N side may be a displaced roofstone. The monument is clearly of court/portal-tomb type and while it could well be a hybrid, the evidence, on balance, indicates close affinities with the court-tomb class, (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 2-3) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its alignment and portal stones reflect early megalithic construction traditions in western Ireland.

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