What is recorded here

Cairn is a small overgrown mound beside a ravine in County Leitrim, company to two nearby passage tombs. It may be a burial place, a boundary marker, or the buried end of a ridge. The field wall above it and the tombs beside it suggest the land has kept being shaped around memory.

Situated c. 80m from the W side of a N-S ravine. This is an overgrown circular rise (diam. c. 10m; H c. 0.5m) which may be the end of a slight ridge. It is overlain by an E-W field wall. Passage tomb (LE025-093001-) is c. 50m to the NE and the passage tomb (LE025-093002-) is c. 40m to the ENE. (Herity 1974, 277, Le 2) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Neolithic passage tomb; significant as a rare surviving example of early megalithic funerary architecture in the region.

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