That proximity is itself unusual. Wedge tombs, the most numerous class of megalithic monument in Ireland, are typically solitary features set into hillsides or open upland ground. Finding a pair of them tucked into a short, confined hollow, close enough that you could stand between them and touch both, is the kind of detail that resists easy explanation and quietly unsettles assumptions about how these structures were used and understood.

This is the northern of the two. A wedge tomb is broadly what the name suggests: a roofed stone gallery, often slightly wider and taller at the entrance end, constructed during the later Neolithic and into the Early Bronze Age, roughly between 2500 and 2000 BC. Here, the gallery runs east to west and measures approximately 3.5 metres in length and just 0.8 metres in width, making it a narrow passage framed by three sidestones on each of the north and south sides. Three buttress-stones reinforce the northern wall and one the southern, and two capstones still cover the gallery. The remains of a surrounding mound survive to the north and south, giving a sense of the earthen mass that would originally have enclosed and defined the whole structure. The documentation of the site draws on the survey work of Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, whose four-volume catalogue of Irish megalithic tombs, published between 1961 and 1982, remains a foundational record for monuments of this type across the country.