What is recorded here

Ballycotteen North holds two leaning wedge tomb stones on a bog slope above Luogh Lough, their chamber once opening west toward water and light. The longer south stone still reaches three metres across damp ground, while the northern stone tilts beside it like a forgotten marker. People may have laid dead near that western gap, watching the lough and sea beyond, before bog and time took the rest. What remains is small, sharp and uncertain, yet it points cleanly toward the water where the chamber faced.

On a S-facing slope in bog overlooking Luogh Lough c. 200m to the W and the sea beyond that. Listed by Ó Nualláin (1989, 133) as 'Ballycotteen North (CL. 125) with a reference to 'Megalithic Survey Files'. The location was noted on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotos and was verified on the ground on inspection in 2023. The location shown in the RMP (1996) was a good distance to the W. Two sidestones remain. They formed a chamber opening to the W (Wth 1.82m at W; 1.34m at E). The N sidestone (L 1.93m; H at W 0.37m; H at E 0.3m; T 0.09m) leans slightly to the S. The longer S stone (L 3.37m; H at W 0.88m; H at E 0.55m; T 0.15m) also leans slightly to S. No other stones remained. A very large boulder lies 40m to the N but may not be associated. The following images have been uploaded: CL015-001----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from E CL015-001----_02.jpg View from NE CL015-001----_03.jpg View from N CL015-001----_04.jpg View from W CL015-001----_05.jpg View from S Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 March 2023

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its location on a prominent slope overlooking a lough and the sea suggests it may have had ritual or symbolic significance in the landscape.

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