Moneygashel

Portal Tomb

The portal tomb at Moneygashel is incorporated into an 11 metre long cairn. The cairn is greatly disturbed and many of the stones that made up the cairn were used to build the field walls that now divide the monument. A single tall portal stone remains at the western side of the tomb with the enormous capstone is resting on it. The missing portal stone would have been to the right in the image below. Although the western side of the chamber is now missing, at first glance it gives the impression that this is the front of the tomb. The obviously displaced roofstone has split into two huge pieces, probably from it's own weight. You can also see the light shining through the split in the image below, next to the portal stone. It is believed that the monument, like the similar portal tomb at the Burren in County Cavan, may have been used as a calf-pen.