What is recorded here
No god, chamber or chambered tomb is recorded. The facts stop at a low oval of small and medium stones, eight large kerbstones around it, six still upright and two fallen, hidden under heather a short distance below the top of Bruse Hill. That much is clear. What the cairn marked, when it was built and whether it still holds a dead person, a boundary, a gift or a warning is not known.
Site is situated c. 100m SW of the summit of Bruse Hill and is heavily overgrown with heather. Oval-shaped cairn (H 0.6m; dims. c. 10.4m NE-SW; c. 8.4m NW-SE) comprising small and medium-sized stones. Enclosed by at least eight large kerbstones; six are on edge, two have fallen.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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