What is recorded here

One long stone still leans above grass in Rannagh West, its lower end broken and a fragment caught against the small slabs that once held it. People moved the other stones away, leaving a shallow dish of earth and a sudden sharp edge on the karst. The tomb has lost most of its shape, but the remaining stone keeps its diagonal line across the field like a name half forgotten.

On rough level karst and patchy grazing. The ground falls gently away to S and W and rises gently to E. A low ridge in next field to N limits the aspect. A poorly preserved wedge tomb on a low grass-covered cairn (ext. dims 6.1m NE–SW; 4.5m NW–SE; max. H 0.4m) which has been robbed out at NW. All that survives of the wedge tomb in situ is one large NE–SW orientated sidestone (L 2.8m; H at SW end 1.3m; H at NE end 0.4m; T 0.16m) supported by two small slabs (L 0.86; H 0.4m; T 0.07m and L 0.8m; H 0.1m; T 0.05m) set perpendicularly on its NW side. The lower NE end of the sidestone is broken and a fragment rests on one of the perpendicular supporting stones. Three slabs (combined length 3.36m) located c. 5m NW may be the remains of another sidestone. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 July 2021

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its presence indicates a local tradition of megalithic funerary practice, characteristic of west and central Ireland.

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