MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS
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DOORUS DEMESNE WEDGE TOMB
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DOORUS WEDGE TOMB, COUNTY GALWAY
This is one of the finest examples of a wedge tomb in Ireland and it is located west of
the county Galway town of Kinvarra, 1km south of Galway Bay. The tomb, aligned NE
- SW, is a protected monument and is sited on a low platform, on a gentle SW facing
slope. The chamber, measuring 2.5m in length & 1.5m - 1.1m in width, is covered by
an enormous roof-stone which measures 2.4m in length, 2.1m in width and 0.30m in
depth. There is a huge amount of cairn material, nearly 1m in depth, on top of the
roof-stone and it is supported by two large side-stones (one on each side) and an
equally large back-stone at NE. There is some evidence of a gallery in front of the NW
side-stone but none on the SW side.
CO-ORDINATES
53 9' 9.222"N...8 58' 21.373"W