What is recorded here
Grey Stone stands in Crevolea as a Neolithic portal tomb, its heavy slabs leaning together like a mouth waiting to speak. People may have gathered there before written history, watching rain strike the stone or placing dead beneath its shadow. The tomb remains scheduled and visible, holding that old human patience against the forgetting of centuries.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PORTAL TOMB: GREY STONE. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Portal dolmen; Neolithic period. It is a scheduled monument, indicating its archaeological importance, though specific details on its wider significance are limited.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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