AN CHEATHRÚ RIABHACH Wedge Tomb - a photo on Flickriver

            Wedge Tomb in AN CHEATHRÚ RIABHACH, TC Gleann Ó gCeanann was uncovered by turf-cutting around 1980, near Stone Circle on same townland.
Site is on a gentle slope about 30m W of the Meenahonor Bum, a tributary of the Glennagannon River, which flows to the sea at Trawbreaga Bay about 9km to the NNW. The monument consists of a gallery, at least 4.5m long, now open at both ends, and flanked at either side by outer-walling. It lies more or less W-E. The gallery is 1.5m wide at the W end; it narrows and decreases in height toward the E. A single roofstone is in place at around midway along the gallery. 
Two orthostats stand at the W end of the S side of the gallery. The western one, which leans inward, is 0.7m in exposed height, and the eastern one is 0.2m lower. Approximately 0.8m beyond the last the line of this side of the gallery is continued to the E by two small stones, only the tops of which are visible. These may well be sidestones. Four orthostats are exposed along the N side of the gallery. That at the W end is a good match for its counterpart on the S side. It is 0.8m high. The second, largely concealed by the roofstone, is 0.2m high. The third orthostat on this side, its western end concealed, is only 0.05m in exposed height. A displaced slab, c. 1m in maximum dimension, rests on this. The fourth orthostat is 0.05m in exposed height. 
The roofstone measures 1.45m N-S by 1.1m E-W and is 0.2m thick. At the N it rests on the second sidestone of the gallery, and originally it would have rested on the corresponding sidestone on the S side but has slipped and now lies on a buried stone that overlaps the inner face of that sidestone. The buried stone is c. 0.8m long, and its top is flush with the surface here. There is no recognisable trace of a cairn or mound. A stone protruding from the peat beyond the SW comer of the gallery is of uncertain status. It is 1.2m long, 0.2m thick and 0.4m in sloping height. 

   

Taken on: February 13, 2016

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