Knowing that this is the Burren's largest wedge tomb doesn't really prepare you for how BIG this tomb is! It's monstrously huge! The chamber is a great big 4.2m long by 3m wide. It was originally covered by a single slab, which because it overlaps the chamber walls by some amount would have been 5m long by nearly 4m wide.
The front of the tomb is 1.7m high and the chamber slopes down to around 1m at the rear. The backstone is very well fitted between the two slabs that make up the walls. The west end of the tomb (the front), which is incorporated into a stone wall, is partially blocked by a massive slab, 'doorway' being left at the north end of this face. There is a low sill stone in the gap.
The majority of the roof lies within the chamber, but two pieces of the front section remain in situ, held up by a steel beam.
This tomb really is one of the wonders of the Megalithic World. Its scale is simply overwhelming.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Carrowroe (Co. Galway) |  Baur North (Co. Clare) |  Magheranaul (Co. Donegal) |
 Lisdarush (Co. Leitrim) |  Cabragh (Co. Sligo) |  Castlehill 2 (Co. Mayo) |
