What is recorded here

Dual court tombs are rare in Ireland, and Killeter may hold one. A long low cairn still stretches across the western slope, its ends marked by upright stones and scattered slabs that once formed chambers and courts. Much has collapsed or been buried, but the alignment remains clear enough to suggest two death houses built back to back.

This monument, situated on a flat patch of ground on a W-facing slope, is overgrown and greatly ruined but would appear to be the remains of a dual court tomb. At the NW end of a cairn, 24m long and 1m or so high, there is an upright stone 1.15m high and alongside it a prostrate slab, both apparently entrance jambs of a gallery of which no other trace is visible. Three stones NW of the upright stone represent a court. On the main axis of the cairn and at its SE end, a line of three low orthostats are partly exposed, and at right angles to the southern of these there is another larger example. The latter may be a jamb and the others part of the side of a gallery. 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

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Its dual court structure indicates a regional variation in Neolithic funerary architecture and reflects early ceremonial practices in the area.

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