What is recorded here

Six metres of broken gallery stretch across Cavan pasture, their northern wall doubled as if the dead needed more room to listen. The gable-topped east stone still faces the sunrise like a door left ajar, while displaced giants roll in the grass beside it. Whatever name the builders spoke has drowned in centuries of rain, but the shape remains: a long chamber, a threshold, and a grave wide enough for several lives at once.

Situated on a level tract of pasture in rolling drumlin country. The monument is very ruined. It consists of seven orthostats and a number of large displaced stones. A line of three orthostats seem to represent the N side of a gallery, about 6m long, aligned W-E. Immediately to the N two orthostats may indicate a doubling of the gallery wall. An orthostat with a gable-shaped top stands at right angles to the E end of the presumed side of the gallery and might be a backstone. A stone parallel to this and 2m to the W may be a sill or segmenting stone. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 124-5, No. 24) 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 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).

A Neolithic portal dolmen; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). Its significance lies in its representation of megalithic funerary architecture, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organization in the region.

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