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.

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