What is recorded here

Leaba na gCon, the Bed of the Dogs, still holds its wedge-shaped chamber on a SW-facing slope above Lough Inchiquin. One leaning sidestone, an inset backstone hidden by bog, and a heavy sloping roofstone form a narrow room barely two metres long. The name suggests dogs, guard or ghost, but the stones give no answer. A nearby cist and cairn wait in the pasture, completing a small funeral landscape buried under grass and forgotten time.

In rough hill pasture, on cutaway bog on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of Lough Inchiquin. A wedge-shaped chamber (L c. 2m; Wth 0.9m at the SW end; Wth 0.65m at the NE end) aligned NE-SW and known locally as 'Leaba na gCon'. Each side comprises a single sidestone, the NW sidestone leaning inwards. The NE end is closed by an inset backstone, the exterior of which is obscured by bog. The roofstone (2m x 1.6m; T 0.3m) slopes down to the NE. A cist (KE101-069002-) and a cairn (KE101-137----) lie 2.5m and 70m to the SSE, respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its alignment and location suggest it was part of a funerary tradition associated with ritual landscape use in the western Irish uplands.

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