What is recorded here

Dolmen is a collapsed portal tomb on Larch Hill near Kilmashogue Mountain, with one square-edged stone still standing two and a half metres tall while the broken roof lies across a shallow eastern chamber. It faces uphill through gently sloping pasture, inviting imagination about the people who carried, aligned and buried within such massive stones long before the valley became familiar. The lost circle described in older accounts has faded from sight, leaving only scattered stone and the quiet suggestion that the ground once held a larger shape.

Situated on the grounds of Larch Hill on gently sloping pasture near the valley bottom W of Kilmashogue Mountain. A megalithic tomb in a collapsed condition with a ruined chamber facing uphill to the E. One of the portal stones, almost square in section, still stands (H 2.5m). The collapsed roofstone covers the chamber (L 3.8m; Wth 2.65m; D 0.7m). There are a number of large collapsed stones lying close to these structural stones. Borlase (1897, 2, 394-5) describes a circle of stones which is not apparent today (Turner 1983, 6-7; Anon.1914, 225-6; Price 1940, 124). Complied by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture and is significant as part of a broader tradition of stone monument construction in Ireland.

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