The Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland.
Location
Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb is located northwest of Killala village, overlooking the Palmerstown River, Killala Bay and the Ox Mountains in County Sligo.
History
This wedge tomb was built c. 2500–2000 BC, in the Copper or Bronze Age.
A stone circle once stood close to the tomb until the 1950s, when the stones were uprooted and dumped onto the wedge tomb.
Description
The tomb has a gallery over long and wide, with side walls composed of boulders up to high. The gallery axis is ENE-WSW, so the ENE end points towards the rising sun at the summer solstice.
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