Corracloona, county Leitrim

G 997 428 - Sheet 17

Nearest village: Kiltyclogher

This unusual tomb has a large door-slab in which is a "kennel-hole" entrance,
reminiscent of some in prehistoric tombs the départements of Hérault and Aude in southern France.
Note the remains of corbelling (overlapping stones)which supported the fallen roof-slabs.
The hole does not seem to be artificial, but that does not mean that it was not a perhaps-serendipitous choice.
The door-stone is very much like the septal slab of wedge-tombs, and the gallery has just one chamber
(like many a southern French dolmen), which makes the monument either hybrid or experimental in an area of much megalithic activity.

Since this photograph was taken thirty years ago a tree has grown up to the left of the "kennel-hole"
- "under State care"!

Click on the picture for another view - thirty years later.

Compare the "holed stone" at Tobernaveen, county Sligo, which is probably all that remains of a similar tomb.