What is recorded here

Wedged into flat pastureland northwest of Coole Lough, the tomb keeps its shape inside an oval mound. Two great slabs lean inward beneath a massive roofstone, narrowing from west to east like a throat closing around a secret. Modern drystone walls block both ends, yet the chamber still points northeast-southwest across the green field. Whoever built it chose a bare stretch of earth where the sky has no horizon to hide behind.

On flat pastureland, c. 1.2km to the NW of Coole Lough. The megalithic tomb consists of a wedge-shaped chamber (L > 4.5m; Wth 2m at W narrowing to 1.2m at E), aligned NE-SW, which is incorporated in an oval mound. The chamber sides, each of one great slab, decrease in height from W to E and support a massive roofstone. Both ends of the tomb are blocked by modern drystone walls. Two closely set outer-wall stones are exposed beside the S sidestone. Some 2m to the SW of the chamber are two stones, which may be the remains of a flat façade. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 19-20) 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

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its wedge-shaped chamber and orientation are characteristic of a funerary tradition widespread across Atlantic Europe during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

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