It is easy to walk past without registering what you are looking at, which is partly what makes it worth pausing over.

Wedge tombs are the most numerous megalithic tomb type in Ireland, built roughly between 2500 and 2000 BC during the later Neolithic and into the Bronze Age. They take their name from their characteristic profile, wider and higher at one end and tapering toward the other. The example at Leitry follows this pattern: its wall decreases in height from the north-east end down toward the south-west, and the alignment itself runs NE-SW, which is typical of the type. At the north-east end, a stone is set at right angles to the northern side of the wall; at the south-west end, a second stone sits to the southern side. These orthostats, the large upright or near-upright slabs that originally formed the structural skeleton of the tomb, are likely all that survive of what would once have been a more substantial roofed gallery, probably used for communal burial and perhaps periodic ritual activity over generations.