Wedge tomb in Carmoney

This tomb stands 35m SE of the last and is also deeply embedded in the bog. Part of a short, markedly wedge-shaped gallery covered by a single roofstone survives here. It is aligned SW-NE. Each of the sides of the gallery is represented by a long and a short orthostat. The long orthostats are opposite each other, and an inclined transverse slab is set between their western ends. Outer-walling is represented by a single stone at the S. In front of the western orthostat on the N side of the gallery there are two stones that may have formed part of the gallery side or may be the remains of a doubling of the gallery wall. A low stone immediately outside the larger of the two gallery orthostats at the N is of uncertain status but may also represent a doubling of the gallery side. There are no traces of a cairn on the surface of the surrounding bog. The exposed gallery structure is 2.7m long. It is 1.6m wide at the W and narrows to 0.8m at the present E end of the N side. Both sides of the gallery decrease in height from W to E. In what appears to be a reference to this tomb, Otway (1827, 35) claimed that it was 20 feet (c. 6.1m) long. The structure now visible is 4.2m in overall length. The western orthostat on the S side of the gallery reaches a maximum height of 0.95m at its outer end. The stone next to it is 0.5m high. The western orthostat at the N side of the gallery is 0.95m high. The stone beside it is 0.75m high at the W and declines to the E. The low stone outside this is 0.5m long and 0.2m thick, and its top is flush with the surface of the bog. The transverse slab is pitched inward, with an upper corner resting against the inner face of the adjoining northern sidestone. It would stand 0.6m high if upright. When upright it is likely to have risen to within c. 0.2m of the roofstone. It seems to be a septal-stone marking a division of the gallery into a portico, of which little remains, and a main chamber. However, it is possible that the surviving roofed structure is the rear or E endchamber of an otherwise largely demolished gallery. The roofstone, laid directly on the gallery sides, is 2.65m long and 0.3m thick and narrows from 2.15m wide toward its higher, western end to 0.65m near the eastern end. It may be significant that this roofstone has been positioned with its long axis along rather than across the gallery, given that at the nearby wedge tomb (Dg. 17) only the roofstone covering the E end of the gallery is so aligned. The lone outer-wall stone at the S leans outward. If upright it would stand 0.75m high. The western of the two adjoining stones in front of the N side of the gallery is 0.15m high. The stone next to it leans southward and would stand 0.9m high if upright. Otway 1827, 35 (described as a long cave c. 20 feet (c. 6.1m) long); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 39, no. 94; SMR 1987, 27:12; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 27:12. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)