What is recorded here

Dual court tomb in Drumavrack, County Cavan. Two long stone chambers face each other inside a broad buried cairn, nearly closed by vegetation but still aligned across the rocky ridge. People built that much stone to keep the dead company, perhaps watching the same horizon where carts and children have passed since.

This monument, a dual court tomb, sited on a low, rocky ridge, is almost completely overgrown. The two galleries, both 9.5m long, are each preceded by the remains of a court and stand at the NW and SE ends of a cairn 37m long, 17m wide and 2.5m high. The opposed ends of the galleries are 2m apart. The court at the NW is semicircular in outline but only three orthostats remain of the SE court. Both galleries are divided by jambs into three chambers. A lintel rests on the entrance jambs of the SE gallery and on the inner pair of segmenting jambs of the NW gallery. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 119-21, No. 19) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE); its dual gallery design is relatively rare in Ireland and reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic architectural development.

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