Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb

Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland.

Location
Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb is located 4 km northwest of Killala village, overlooking the Palmerstown River and Killala Bay.

History
This wedge tomb was built c. 2500–2000 BC, in the Copper or Bronze Age.

A stone circle once stood close to the tomb until the 1950s, when the stones were uprooted and dumped onto the wedge tomb.

Description
The tomb has a gallery over 3 m long and 2 m wide, with side walls composed of boulders up to 1.8 m high. The gallery axis is ENE-WSW, so the ENE end points towards the rising sun at the summer solstice.