What is recorded here

Thirty metres southeast of the burial chamber stands a granite boulder carved with a cross and figure, linking the Bronze Age dead to later human hands. The cairn itself holds a central cist where a cremated person and food vessel waited inside a circular chamber, while a secondary urn burial suggests the mound remained active long after its first making. People climbed Tibradden Mountain not merely to observe stones but to participate in memory, perhaps marking loss, honouring ancestors or negotiating with forces they believed dormant within the hill.

Situated on the NW slopes of Tibradden Mountain. A cairn excavated in 1849. Within the cairn a central cist containing a bowl food vessel and cremation enclosed within a circular chamber (diam. c. 3m). The monument was investigated in 1956 as part of conservation works and interpreted as a Bronze Age cairn with centrally-placed cist (Ó hEochaidhe 2003). A partially lintelled passage runs off the chamber in the NNE. A secondary urn burial was found within the cairn (Farrington 1933, 252-4; Price 1940, 121, 133; Waddell 1970, 117). A granite boulder (DU025-023002-) is situated 30m to the SE and is decorated with a cross and figure incised. This monument was subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 155/1940). It was subsequently taken into Guardianship by the State. Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

A Neolithic burial cairn, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of a central cist with a bowl food vessel and cremated remains, reflecting early funerary practices in the Irish Neolithic.

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