Wedge tomb in Carrigboy (muskerry West By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ruined gallery, 1.15 m wide, aligned NW-SE at the west foot of a rocky ridge in Carrigboy. Two side stones, a west facade stone and three outer-wall stones still mark the chamber, with faint traces of its mound beside them. People may have laid out the dead there beneath an open sky, then covered the work in earth until the ridge itself seemed to hold them.

Situated at W foot of ridge of outcropping rock. Ruined gallery (Wth 1.15m to W), aligned NW-SE, represented by two side stones and facade stone to W, and three outer-wall stones along N and S sides. Traces of mound around tomb. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its partial survival, including the facade and alignment, reflects a regional megalithic tradition in west Munster.

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