Corracloona Court Tomb

Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. A D-shaped cairn (dims 14m E-W; 11.7m N-S; max. H 1.5m) defined by orthostats and drystone-walling contains a single megalithic chamber (dims 3.45m E-W; 2.2m N-S) with a displaced roofstone (dims 2.55m x 1.8m). The single stone at the W (H 2.45m) has a kennel-hole (dims 0.8m x 0.95m) giving access to the SW-facing porch (Wth 5m; D 4m) or court. It was excavated and reconstructed in 1953 by when hollow scrapers, thumb-nail scrapers, a leaf-shaped arrowhead and some coarse pottery were recovered, but there was no evidence of human remains (Kilbride-Jones 1974). Morphologically, it could be a court tomb or wedge tomb, and it is a National Monument (Harbison 1970, 142). (Lowry-Corry 1937; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 58-9)