The wedge tomb at Dromduff, a type of megalithic monument built during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age in which a tapering stone gallery was covered by one or more large capstones, was recorded as a ruined but identifiable structure and then, between 1963 and 1966, destroyed. That narrow window of time gives the loss a particular quality; it was recent enough to feel avoidable, and documented closely enough that its disappearance is precisely dated.

When archaeologists Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin surveyed it for their comprehensive catalogue of Irish megalithic tombs, published in 1982, they could describe what had been there. The gallery had been aligned approximately east to west, a common orientation for wedge tombs, and part of its structure had been absorbed into a field fence, the fate of many such monuments as farmland was managed and boundaries shifted. The north side of the gallery remained partly visible beneath a large roofstone, and a single standing stone to the northwest may have formed part of the outer walling that sometimes enclosed these monuments. It is the kind of description that reconstructs just enough of a shape to make the absence feel concrete. Wedge tombs are the most numerous megalithic tomb type in Ireland, concentrated heavily in the west and south, and their builders likely used them for communal burial, though the Dromduff example had already been ruined long before its final destruction.

There is nothing to visit now. The site sits in agricultural land on the western flank of the Laney valley, and what once marked a place of prehistoric significance has gone into the fabric of a field boundary, or simply gone.