Passage tomb in Bremore

Situated on the coast at the mouth of the river Delvin. This passage tomb is part of Bremore cemetery (Rynne 1960, 79, Mound I). It comprises a circular cairn which is heavily grassed over (max. diam. 29m; H 3.5m). Possible kerbstones on W side. Disturbance at NW may indicate the remains of a collapsed passage and chamber (Herity 1974, 209, 255). Best preserved of the mounds (I-V), it appears the mound had been perfectly conical 'until the 1940s when the Board of Works took stone from it to paint Eire in white along the cliff edge of the headland-as part of the Emergency Defenses'. This is according to the current owners, whose father owned the land at the time, and told them this is how the interior of the mound was collapsed. However cartographic evidence indicates there may have been collapse/quarrying of the mound in the previous century. Geophysical survey (Licence no. 06R0050) of the mound did not return specific structural detail (Gimson 2006, 10). It did however show a drainage pipe had been inserted immediately to the east. The Bremore headland was also subject to a constraint study carried out by Margaret Gowen & Company Ltd. in advance of a proposed port. In addition fieldwalking and lithic analysis was undertaken for an MA study (Collins, 2007). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 April 2015 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 27/1976).

Passage tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). It is part of a larger cemetery and represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture associated with communal burial practices in Ireland.