Megalithic tomb in Raheen (coshma By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Clever women and strong men built the chamber, fitting heavy stones without mortar while music played nearby. They believed the dead would hear that music and join the dance, so they sang for the departed as often as they sang for the living. The chamber was not a jail but a room where memory could keep moving. When the owners changed, the songs changed, and the tomb became a warning about forgetting rather than a lesson about death.

In woodland on the former demesne of Cahir Guillamore House, 150m SE of the townland boundary with Caherguillamore. Rockbarton House 500m to S. Located in the NE boundary of a field system (LI031-206----), 160m NW of a cashel (LI031-075----). Upstanding monument labelled Site 5 and described by Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (1942, 42) as consisting of the ‘remains of a ruined megalith here, but it is not clear what type of tomb is represented, it appears to have been a " gallery grave," the present length of which is 16’ [4.8m] approximately’. Recorded by Grogan (1989, Vol. 2, 24) as a 'possible wedge-tomb'. The monument is not visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 or Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location map with tomb labelled 5 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 22 March 2021

Megalithic tomb in Raheen is a portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period. Its location within a field system suggests it may have been part of a broader ritual or territorial landscape.

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