MULTIPLE CIST CAIRN: THE MOATE in Dorsy (cavan O'hanlon); Dorsy OR Roxborough

The Moate in Dorsy holds several burial chambers beneath one broad mound, marking it as a rare multiple cist cairn from the Bronze Age. It is a scheduled ancient place where several lines of death and memory crossed instead of one lonely grave. The name The Moate suggests a hollow or basin, fitting a mound that may have risen around a depression rather than a flat field. People may have returned there across generations, adding stones and bodies until the hill itself became a living archive of loss.