What is recorded here

Colhoun called it a multiple-chambered cairn, but modern blasting scars and dumped stones suggest a much younger origin. The small rectangular chamber may be a discarded quarry trap rather than an ancient tomb, exposing the danger of assuming age from shape alone.

This feature, identified by Colhoun (1949, 116) as a 'multiple-chambered cairn', is a small stone-built structure, subrectangular in outline, measuring 1.8m long (N-S) by c. 1.3m wide. Small upright stones set in the ground define three of its sides. The western side, if it exists, is obscured by dumped stones. The feature is somewhat cist-like in appearance, but there is a doubt about its antiquity. The remains of what appear to be boreholes at the edge of two of the structural stones suggest that they have been quarried in modern times, perhaps by blasting. Colhoun 1949, 116; SMR 1987, 11:10; Colhoun 1995, no. 11/46 recte 11/41, 38; RMP 1995, 11:10. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Multiple-chambered cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its construction suggests ritual or funerary use, reflecting early communal burial practices in the region.

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