What is recorded here
No visible chamber remains, only the ghost of a wedge-shaped passage marked by a long northern stone and scattered southern slabs. The tomb sits inside a low oval mound on elevated rough pasture, its western edge swallowed by a later field wall that still divides the townlands. People may have laid dead within that missing chamber before forgetting the shape entirely, leaving behind a boundary marker dressed as antiquity.
On an elevated site in rough pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This poorly preserved wedge tomb (est. L c. 3m E-W; Wth c. 2m N-S) is aligned E-W and stands in the centre of a low, oval-shaped mound (H 0.6-0.9m: diams. 13m E-W; 9m N-S). The remains consist of a large, N sidestone (L 2.95m; H 0.96-1.18m; T 0.1-0.23m) and three S sidestones opposite. One of the latter (L 0.6m; H 0.53m; T 0.11m) lies at the W, and another (L 1.45m; H 0.28m; T 0.12m) is at the E and is situated 1.65m S of the N sidestone. Immediately to the S of and parallel with this is another upright slab (L 0.85m H 0.3m; T 0.08m). The N sidestone and W end of the tomb are incorporated into later field walls, that at the W forming part of the townland boundary with Sheshodonnell East. There is a cairn (CL010-047017-) c. 195m to the S.
See attached images:
• CL010-047009-_01 JPG View from east, August 1999.
• CL010-047009-_02 JPG View from south, August 1999
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 24 February 2023
Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC), aligned east-west. Its location within a multiperiod landscape highlights its role in a broader prehistoric settlement and funerary system.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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