What is recorded here

Lisgoogan holds a collapsed wedge tomb where three large slabs lie across a low mound on open limestone pasture. The stones crack and overlap like a broken sentence, preserving the shape of a chamber that once watched the wide horizon. People may have gathered there to mark death, claim land, or simply orient themselves beneath an endless sky.

On generally level mixed rough pasture and exposed limestone pavement, with land rising slightly to the N but wide views elsewhere, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Listed as a wedge tomb by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1989, 134). This mostly collapsed tomb is orientated E-W, and is embedded in the centre of a subcircular mound (5.5m N-S; 5.5m E-W; H 0.65-0.8m). Some loose stones along the mound’s N side may be part of a later field wall which runs ENE-WSW across the monument. The tomb survives as an E-W line of three collapsed capstone slabs. The E slab (L c. 1.8m; Wth 1.4m; T 0.1-0.14m) has an E-W crack through it. The middle capstone (L 1.7m; Wth 1.7m; T 0.1-0.2m) is cracked into three pieces at its E end, suggesting that perhaps this capstone and that to the E are two broken parts of a single fragmented slab. A third capstone slab (L 2m; Wth 1.35m; T 0.2m) lies partly beneath the SW end of the middle slab. Just S of the middle capstone piece is a tilted but earthfast upright slab (L 1.45m; min. H 1.1m; T 0.07-0.12m), orientated E-W, which may be part of the tomb’s S side. Another upright stone may be part of the tomb’s N side; however, it is mostly covered by the N edge of the E fallen capstone slab. Some 3m W of the W capstone piece, i.e., beyond the mound, is a small, upright stone (L 1.5m; min. H 0.7m; T 0.2m) orientated-S which tilts to the W. There is a cist (CL005-217----) 6m to the NNE, and another cist (CL005-218----) 86m to the ENE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29-9-2025

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its form and location suggest it is part of a broader funerary and ritual landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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