Megalithic structure in Ballyglass (rathconrath By.)

Situated on WSW face of high natural ridge running NE-SW with excellent views in all directions. Well preserved ring-barrow (WM018-090----) with a modern field bank of earth and stone running NW-SE is located 3m E of external bank. There are three large orthostats of megalithic proportions incorporated into the W face of this field bank which may have been the remains of some type of megalithic structure which has been partially levelled. Two of these stones are set longitudinally in a line as if to form the side wall of a chamber with the third stone at NW end running perpendicular as if to form a jamb stone of the chamber (SMR File 27/04/1970). In 1921, when Shaw saw them, they were collectively known as the ‘leegaun’, although he mistakenly placed them ‘on the west, facing the barrow’ (Shaw 1921, 137). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 20 July 2015