Carrickglass, county Sligo.

Tucked away in a hollow, in the corner of a field, this remarkable megalith has a huge limestone capstone 2.5 metres thick, 4.5 metres long, and 2.75 metres wide, weighing some 70 tonnes. It is a veritable hanging garden of vegetation, and appears to be driving the ridiculously puny portal-stones and backstone into the soft ground. The entrance is marked by a thin door-slab.
'Labby' is an anglicisation of the Irish word for 'bed' - as in 'Dermot and Grania's Bed'.

G 796 157 - Sheet 25

Nearest village: Riverstown



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