Labbacallee, county Cork.

R 774 020 - Sheet 73

Nearest village: Glanworth


A rear view of the largest of Irish wedge-tombs, known as "The Hag's Bed"
(Leaba Caillighe,
referring to the Hag aspect of the Triple Goddess)
showing the massive roof-stones and the three "buttress-stones" at the back. It is covered with three huge roofstones.
The three stones in the left foreground are part of the kerb which was designed to show off the buttress-stones in a kind of "rear-court".
The megalith resembles a French gallery-tomb in size and design, a similarity shared by the wedge-tomb at Burren, Cavan.


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There are two closing-slabs at the front of the tomb with a deliberate gaps on each side.

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