Site Type: Passage Tomb
Irish Grid Ref: H6040358432
Location: Link to Bing Maps
Description:
Finding a description of this tomb is difficult, it is 3.4m long by 2.3m wide and is set into the ground (within a clump of trees). There is rock-art on at least two of the stones and there is a standing stone in an adjacent field which also has rock-art on it and is likely to be part of the tomb also. The backstone of the tomb is covered in concentric circles.
Martin Brennan in his book "Stones of Time" put forward theory that this stone would be illuminated by the rising sun on the summer solstice. However due to the trees around the tomb this effect is likely to be hard to see today..
Links to photographs;
Picture of the tomb on Tom Fourwinds website www.megalithomania.com
Picture of the rock art on the back-stone by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Ken Williams
Links for further information;
Plan of the tomb from Tom Fourwinds website www.megalithomania.com
