What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the last house, a long stone ridge still marks the edge of a forgotten field. Two tall portals and one backing stone lean above a narrow chamber, while grass and soil bury most of the chamber roof. The tomb may have stood when people still walked these hills, and the field bank that cuts across it may have grown later as the land was divided. What is certain is that the chamber is real, the stones are large, and the ridge still crosses the slope where no wall or road has been drawn.

Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. An overgrown chamber (dims 1.65m N-S; 0.9m E-W) formed by two portal-stones (max. H 1.45m) at N with one visible sidestone and a backstone, is set into the N end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 27.5m N-S; c. 7.5m E-W; max. H c. 1m) whose W side has been truncated at the N end by a NE-SW field bank. A large slab (dims c. 1.2m x 1.05m; max. T 0.4m) near the chamber may be part of the original roofstone. (Cooney 1985) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December 2019

Portal tomb; Neolithic period. This tomb represents an early megalithic funerary tradition and is significant as a rare surviving example of portal tomb architecture in the region.

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