What is recorded here
In pasture, on top of a low ridge. A circular platform (diam. 5.9m; H 0.4m) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.3m; D c. 0.15m) with an external earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; H 0.7m). The entrance (Wth 2m) is at NE with a causeway across the fosse. There is a field boundary on top of the bank S-N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
A Neolithic passage tomb with a circular platform and fosse; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its construction reflects early communal burial practices and earthwork engineering in the region.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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