What is recorded here
On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Wedge-shaped grass-covered cairn (dims 12m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE at NE to 6m NW-SE at SW) retained by orthostats on the NW side and four stones from the façade at SW. The façade leads through a portico over a septal slab into the chamber which is concealed by the cairn. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 37-8; Timoney 1996a, 9)
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 559
See the attached image (023.jpg) taken from the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 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).
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