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Dunteige Wedge Tomb
 

County

Antrim

Coordinates

N 54° 54' 06.9"   W 005° 56' 15.4"

Nearest town

Ballygalley

Grid Ref.

D 32349 07980

Map No.

9

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

269

Date of visit

Saturday 23 May 2009

GPS Accuracy (m)

5
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The entrance of the tomb. To the right one of the entrance stones. The square stone in the middle splits the entrance.


There are no houses or farms here around, so I didn't know whom to ask and I went into the field all the same.
The sheep and the lambs in the field ran away for the fear. One of the lambs was lying on the grass, dead...
From the cattle gate I walked northeast for 170 metres with a rise of 25 metres.
The tomb is about 10 metres long, 3.50 metres wide and 1.20 metres tall at one of the entrance stones. The monument is aligned roughly north-south.


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