Court tomb in Carrownakib

On a low knoll amidst gently rolling pasture, 1.2km from E shores of Lough Corrib. The monument is very ruined. It consists of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned roughly E-W, represented by two entrance jambs at E, two sidestones on N and a backstone at W. A single courtstone flanks N jamb, and a stone in a similar position adjoining the opposite jamb may also be a courtstone. The overall length of the gallery would indicate that it had at least two chambers. The structure is incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 12.5m, Wth 10m). There is an unclassified megalithic tomb (GA055-070----) c. 130m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-069----) c. 160m to NNW. (Aldridge 1965, 15; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12; Ó Nualláin 1989, 118) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). 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).