page_title: Altar Wedge Tomb
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Altar Wedge Tomb / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Toormore Altar Wedge Tomb and Milkyway
context_page_description: Altar Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland.
context_section_description: The entrance was aligned ENE–WSW, possibly with Mizen Peak (Carn Uí Néit) and maybe to catch the setting sun at Samhain (November 1).
  The tomb consists of a trapezoidal orthostatic gallery 3.42 m (11.2 ft) long, 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) wide at the west end 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) at the east.
  A roof-stone 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) long, is still above the east end, and a second rests against the westerly stones at either side of the gallery. There is no cairn material or evidence of kerbstones; they may have been removed for road construction in the 19th century AD.
caption: Altar wedge tomb under the Milky Way
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