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In pastureland with outcropping rock, some 350m to the S of the seashore at the inner reaches of Mweeloon Bay. This tomb comprised the ruins of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned NW-SE, divided into two chambers by a sill-stone. The entrance, at SE, was between two jambs; the N jamb was flanked by a single courtstone. A large displaced stone, possibly a roofstone, lay in the front chamber. The tomb was bulldozed during the course of land clearance in 1964. The orthostats were pushed to the fence at the N boundary of the field. (Holt 1912, 249-50; McCaffrey 1952, 11-12; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 15-16)
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).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
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