Carrowmore / Glentogher Wedge Tomb

This monument, not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, is one of three wedge tombs at the southern end of this townland. One of the others (Dg. 25) is just under 200m to the S, and the other (Dg. 26) is c. 550m to the SE. The one described here is on a slight platform immediately E of the base of a prominent rocky knoll on which there is a large stone enclosure (Lacy 1983, 116, 118, no. 709). This is an area of heather-grown bog broken by numerous rock outcrops. To the N the land falls to the valley of the Glentogher River. There is an outlook to Quigley's Point, on the shore at Lough Foyle, almost 5km to the SE The ruins of this tomb are deeply embedded in the bog. It is aligned NNE-SSW and is described here as if it lay N-S. The gallery is represented by two opposed sidestones that support a roofstone in a sloping position with its higher end to the S. The gap between the orthostats narrows from 1.3m at the S to 1m at the N. Three stones of close-set outer-walling are visible. The first overlaps the N end of the eastern sidestone, and the second overlaps its S end. The third is opposite the second and on the W side of the monument. Between the two opposed outer-wall stones are two stones protruding from the ground, neither of which appears to be structural. The northern one is 0.2m high, and the southern one is 0.4m high. Approximately 1m S of the last is a stone with a marked southward lean. It would stand 1m high if upright. Its function is uncertain, but it may represent a facade. The eastern sidestone is 0.4m high at its southern end. The western sidestone leans inward. If upright it would be 0.5m high at its southern end. Both sidestones decrease in height toward the N. The overlying roofstone is 2.3m long and 1.8m in maximum width and narrows abruptly near its northern end. The western edge of this stone is partly obscured by heather-grown peat. The northern outer-wall stone on the E side of the monument, now partly concealed, is 0.35m high. The second outer-wall stone here, 1.8m to the S, leans outward. This stone, if upright, would be 0.9m high. The outer-wall stone at the W side of the monument leans inward. It would stand 0.6m high if upright. N.D. Evans and H. Evans 1967, two photographs; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 39, no. 95 (plan); SMR 1987, 20:11; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 20:11. 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). Attached images: DG020-011----_01.JPG viewed from E DG020-011----_02.JPG viewed from SSW DG020-011----_03.JPG viewed from NNE Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)