What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined western-facing court tomb on a Cavan hillridge, reduced to a narrow entrance and three surviving southern stones. The gallery is gone, the northern jamb is split, and a low grassy bank still marks the old boundary. What remains is a threshold rather than a chamber, preserving the moment when human hands first shaped death into architecture.

Situated on a hill-ridge and close to the wedge tomb in the same townland (50). The scant remains here are of a W-facing court tomb the gallery of which has been destroyed. Only the inner end of the court, consisting of an entrance flanked at S by three courtstones, now survives. The entrance consists of two well-matched jambs, 0.8m apart, at either side of a low sill. The northern jamb is split in two. The surviving structure stands at the western edge of a circular enclosure, 8.5m by 7.5m, formed by a low, grass-grown stony bank. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 109, No. 7) 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 court tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, with only the inner end of the court surviving; its proximity to a wedge tomb suggests it is part of a significant prehistoric funerary landscape.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.