What is recorded here
On top of a low natural hillock in wet marshy terrain in a mountainous region. A natural elongated mound which appears to have been scarped and flattened on top to form a low mound (dims. 23m N-S; 13m E-W; H 0.5-0.7m) of natural appearance which is very heavily overgrown with thorn bushes.The base of the mound is intersected by a field boundary at N on a NE-SW axis.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period. Its location on a modified natural hillock suggests ritual or ceremonial significance in a landscape with limited elevated ground.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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