What is recorded here

Five hundred metres southwest of its sibling, a forgotten wedge tomb lies buried beneath a roadside fence in rolling Galway pasture. Three metres long and narrowing from one and a half to one metre, the chamber holds a closing stone, two southern sidestones, one northern stone, and an eastern backstone. Cattle may still walk across the mound without knowing they patrol a chamber built for the dead.

In rolling pastureland, some 500m to the SW of another wedge-tomb (GA125-121----). This tomb is incorporated in a roadside fence. The remains comprise a short wedge-shaped gallery (L c. 3m; Wth estimated c. 1.5m at W narrowing to c. 1m at E), aligned E-W, represented by a closing stone at E, a single sidestone at N, two sidestones at S, and a backstone at E. The remains of a mound incorporating the tomb run under the fence. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 522; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 22-3) 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 form and location suggest it is part of a regional pattern of funerary monuments associated with ritual and burial practices in west Cork.

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