Court tomb in Aghanagh

On a low ridge close to the W shore of Lough Arrow. The tomb stands in a low oval mound (25.5m SSE-NNW; 9m ENE-WSW). A court (min. L 5m) to the SSE is represented by four stones, one at the outer and one at the inner ends of both arms. Two jambs mark the entrance to a gallery (L 8m), a segmenting jamb on the N side of which indicates a division into two chambers. One stone remains of the N side of the first chamber and there are two on the S side. A stone outside the inner of these two seems to represent a doubling of the gallery side. Two orthostats at the S are the only remains of the inner chamber. A large slab in the front chamber may be a lintel displaced from above the entrance jambs. There is also a displaced slab at the back of the gallery. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with a plan and sections of the monument (surveyed 1989). Date of upload: 27 May 2013

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3800–2500 BCE). This tomb type is significant as an early form of megalithic funerary architecture, often associated with communal burial and ritual practices in prehistoric Ireland.