What is recorded here

Megalith is a polygonal cist buried beneath a grass-covered cairn at the top of a south-facing slope in County Leitrim, Ireland. The chamber measures one metre by eighty centimetres under a roofstone stretching sixteen decimetres across, while the surrounding mound reaches nearly two metres at its highest point. Field walls now cross the ancient stones, blending human ownership with older mystery. The Bonet River valley glitters to the west, waiting for whoever first placed those heavy rocks against the dark.

Situated at the top of a S-facing slope and overlooking the NE-SW Bonet River valley to the W. A polygonal orthostatic cist (dims 1m x 0.8m; H 0.8m) with a large roofstone (dims 1.6m x 1.2m; T 0.2m) is at the centre of a grass-covered subcircular cairn (dims 15m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW; H 0.6m at NW to 1.8m at SE) with some visible kerbstones, especially W-N. The cairn is overlain by field walls. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 84) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 April, 2016

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its position on a prominent slope suggests ritual or funerary significance, typical of megalithic monuments in Atlantic Europe.

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