What is recorded here

Carrowbaun holds a broken wedge tomb where upright stones still mark the edge of a buried gallery. The mound lies low beneath grass and fence lines, yet its straight stone rows preserve the shape of a chamber built to receive the dead. People may have walked this ridge when Nephin Mountain rose clear on the horizon, placing what they loved inside a room that time has half swallowed.

In pasture, located on a gentle N-facing ridge slope with good views, including Nephin Mountain visible on the skyline to NW. Remnants of a wedge tomb consisting of a low, sod-covered sub-rectangular mound (c. 8m NE–SW; c. 5m NW–SE; H 0.5-0.8m), from which several large upright stones/ortostats (Wth c. 0.6m; H c. 0.6m; T c. 0.3m) protrude. A double row of orthostats borders the NW side of the mound, and a perpendicular upright slab forms a facing on the NE side: these appear to represent the NE end of a gallery on a NE−SW axis. The mound is crossed by an E–W field fence. There are raths (MA082-006----; MA082-007----) 250m to WNW and c. 170m to NNW, respectively. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its location on a prominent ridge suggests it may have had ritual or funerary significance within the local landscape.

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