What is recorded here

Leitir Bric holds a short rectangular cist where two bowl foodvessels accompanied a skeletal burial, while two empty chambers beside it waited for lives that never arrived. The mound still marks the edge of human memory, preserving both the dead and the vacant spaces where intention failed.

'Cemetry Mound', short rectangular cist found containing two bowl foodvessels and remains of skeletal burial. Two other small cists found containing nothing but a 'little mould' (Waddell 1970, 113). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Bronze Age burial mound, likely dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of food vessels, which suggest ritual deposition practices associated with funerary rites of the period.

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