What is recorded here

Thirty-seven metres of broken stone mark a rectangular court at the foot of Tievebaun Mountain, preserving a six metre chamber where people may have placed the dead before forgetting the names of the living. Two uprights still stand east of the chamber, framing an entrance that leads nowhere visible but invites the mind to complete the missing shape. The tomb does not explain itself. It waits beside the mountain, large enough to hold several lifetimes and quiet enough to erase them.

On a platform of a NE-facing slope at the NE foot of Tievebaun Mountain, and c. 20m N of a wedge tomb (LE003-006---). This is a rectangular cairn (dims 37m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW; H 1.25m) and contains a single orthostatic chamber (dims 6m x 2.5m) in the centre while two uprights (max. H 1m) 6m to the E may flank an entrance to a full court identifiable only by a single slab at S. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 50-51) 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, Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BC). Its association with a nearby wedge tomb suggests it is part of a significant prehistoric funerary landscape in the region.

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