What is recorded here

Mullaghmore court tomb stands in a coniferous forest on a broad hill in County Leitrim, its rectangular cairn stretching thirty metres and its semicircular court facing northeast. Tree-planting and cutting have removed much of the structure, leaving only a ghost of the chamber and court buried beneath soil and roots. Whatever hands built that court and laid those stones has vanished, but the shape endures: a room made for the dead, half-erased by the living world’s hunger for timber and field.

Located in a coniferous forest on top of a broad hill. A single-chambered gallery (dims 4m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) and a NE-facing semicircular court (dims 9.6m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) are at the NE end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c.15m NE-SW). An enclosure (LE015-108002-) is adjacent to NW. It is now largely removed through tree-planting and cutting (Bing 2013). (Richardson and Lowry-Corry 1940, 178-80; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 67-8) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 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 in Mullaghmore; Neolithic period, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. This tomb is significant as an example of early megalithic funerary architecture in Ireland, reflecting communal burial practices and ritual landscape use during the Neolithic.

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