What is recorded here

Stand at the chamber mouth and drop a marble. It bounces once on solid stone, falls through darkness, and never returns. The chamber is a narrow passage, not a broad hall, and the ceiling is so low a tall person must bend. The tomb is small enough to walk around in minutes, yet deep enough to swallow sound. What is buried there is not written on any stone. The sea took the field around it and left the chamber standing.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Some 150m from monument on the coast (ME028-021----) are remains of a much denuded kerbed cairn, 37m in diam. and averaging c. 1m high. Listed as passage tomb. (Herity 1974, 252)

Passage tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as some of the earliest monumental expressions of social and ritual activity in Ireland, often associated with burial and ceremonial practices.

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