What is recorded here
Under Lismullin, a split boulder caps the second chamber of an underground passage, bearing concentric arcs beneath nested chevrons and a U-motif. The stones may have marked breath, tide or memory for people who walked into darkness and returned changed. What they saw in those lines still waits beneath the grass.
A large irregular split boulder with megalithic art was discovered incorporated into a Man-made underground passage (ME032-061----) where it capped the second behive chamber. The decoration consists of two groups of concentric arcs, situated below an arrangement of nested chevrons with an associated U-motif. (O'Connell 2013, 36-40, 165-8)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout, Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 14 March 2013
Passage tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE), featuring megalithic art. Its significance lies in the rare preservation of carved decoration within an underground chamber, offering insight into Neolithic artistic and ritual practices.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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