What is recorded here

Two collapsed stone openings still mark the brow of a low Cloontakilla hill, revealing lintels and walling from a passage that once ran beneath the grass. The hill faces a stream gully, overlooks Carrowmore Lake, and stands near a children’s burial ground, suggesting the hidden chamber belonged to a place where daily life and death were kept close together. People may have entered it to store, hide, pray or remember, while the earth above continued to carry pasture and rain.

In pasture, located the S side of on a low hill. The slope of the hill drops into a stream gully immediately to S. The hill provides good views of the surrounding undulating countryside and of Carrowmore Lake c. 750m to NW. Two surface openings are evident on the brow of the hill. The larger opening (2.4m NE–SW; 1.5m NW–SE), at the SW, is located close to the break of slope at the top of the S-facing slope of the hill. The second surface opening (1.4m NE–SW; 0.7m NW–SE) is located 4m to NE. Both openings reveal cavities in which portions of drystone walling and roof lintels are visible. The two openings appear to represent collapsed sections of a stone-built passage or chamber extending roughly NE–SW. There is no evidence of an associated enclosure. There is a children’s burial ground (MA018-008----) located c. 25m to SW on the S side of the stream gully. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 January 2016 .

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