What is recorded here
Caherbullog is a hidden chamber, not a dead chamber. The mountain breathes through its walls, and that breathing is the identity of the chamber. Mairi does not need to solve it because she is inside it. The chamber is complete, and she is one of its parts.
In a prominent location on the E edge of the broad summit of Slieve Elva. A subcircular mound (16m E-W; 14m N-S; H 1.5-1.8m) with a smooth profile, covered in 0.8m of bog, reported to the National Monuments Service by Michael Gibbons. A bog drain has clipped the N edge.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 May 2021
A subcircular Bronze Age cairn; its location suggests a ritual or funerary function within a landscape of prehistoric monuments.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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