What is recorded here

Walter Harris recorded eight black marble stones forming an ancient sepulchre in the eastern suburbs of Dublin City. The chamber held vast quantities of burnt coals, ashes and human bones, marking a brutal ritual rather than a quiet rest. That mound has vanished from the modern map, erasing the exact spot where death and fire once shared one small space.

Walter Harris in the second volume of The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland records an ancient sepulchre somewhere in the eastern suburbs of Dublin City. This wasplaced SW by NE, which was composed of eight black marble stones of which two made the covering and was supported by the other. According to the report vast quantities of burnt coals, ashes and human bones were found in it (Borlase, 1897, II, 381). The location of this mound is unknown. It has been identified with the place known as the Styne (Halliday 1884, 153).

Megalithic tomb, likely Neolithic in origin; its orientation and construction suggest a passage tomb tradition. Recorded historically by Sir James Ware, it represents early prehistoric funerary practices in the Dublin region.

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