What is recorded here

Moydristan holds a broken court tomb where seven stones still frame a southern entrance beside an old rath. The gallery has mostly vanished, leaving one small marker and scattered stones in the grass. That much of the chamber is gone makes the remaining line more striking, as if the dead released most of their house back to the ridge.

The monument stands immediately N of a rath (CV037-050----) on a broad ridge in rolling grassland. Largely destroyed, it consists of a S-facing court, roughly semicircular in outline, formed by seven substantial stones, three to the W and four to the E, the tallest 1.45m high. Behind the inner stone at W, which also served as an entrance jamb, a stone 0.8m high is all that now remains of the gallery. A considerable number of prostrate stones of varying size lie in and around what was the gallery area. (Ó Nualláin 1989,116,Cv.42) 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. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are among the earliest megalithic monuments in Ireland, often associated with communal burial and ritual practices.

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