What an absolute swine to find ... especially at 9 pm on an autumnal evening!!! I got out my trusty OS map and set off. The road up to it is typical farm track/country lane with holes that you could lose a 4x4 in. After I found the hole in the hedge I failed to spot the tomb, so I went back the day after. I can't say it was really worth it, apart from the barbed wire jumping involved ... I always love that.
It is a curious little place consisting of just the side uprights and the capstone. The structure stands about 1.5m tall.
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_I was in the area visiting the wedge tombs at Laughanstown (County Dublin) and Shankhill (County Dublin), which are said to be similar in design to this tomb and so I thought I'd make up the threesome.
I also wanted to see if there was any more to this tomb than the two uprights and the roof stone that extend from the hedgerow. Sadly there is not.
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_| Denis O'Connor from Wicklow |  |
Take the R117 from Dublin to Enniskerry. When you come to a Texaco petrol station bear left and take the first left. After about 1.5 km you will reach a farm on the left. Take the road/track beside this and follow it to the t-junction. Turn right and and after about 200m you pass a white house. The tomb is situated on the edge of their garden and the next field.
Although there seems to be this one, fairly poor, tomb on Carrickgollogan it appears that there was once lot more here.
"A History of the County Dublin" By Francis Elrington Ball published in 1902 is a very late printing of an account of Dublin written at the end of the 18th Century.
Book 3, chapter 6 says:
"Within its limits is the mountain of Carrickgollogan (i.e., the rock of Ollaghan).
The objects of archaeological interest are cromlechs and cairns on Carrickgollogan, a rath near Rathmichael, the ruined church and round tower of Rathmichael, "Puck's Castle" (i.e.~ the castle of the pooka), Shanganagh Castle, and Shankill Castle."
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Toormore (Co. Cork) |  Kilmackowen (Co. Cork) |  Lisduff (Co. Galway) |
 Carrig (Co. Wicklow) |  Rausker (Co. Monaghan) |  Ballygroll 9 (Co. Derry) |
