What is recorded here

Colhoun (1949) listed this site as a 'single chambered cairn or dolmen'. This is a large rock outcrop on which, according to an entry in an OS Revision Name Book (1848), there was then 'an ancient cairn of stones'. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 11 (1848), 103; Colhoun 1949, 116; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Bonner 1972, 16; SMR 1987, 11:19; Colhoun 1995, 31, no. 11/5; RMP 1995, 11:19. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

A Neolithic single-chambered cairn or dolmen; its remains are associated with early megalithic funerary practices in the region.

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