What is recorded here

Half a kilometre south of the River Erne, two tall stones still stand gap-together in Cavan pasture, waiting for a body no one remembers. The chamber narrows into darkness, its roof broken and backstone leaning inward as if listening. People may have laid their dead beneath that tilted stone while cattle grazed above, trusting the earth to keep what the sky forgot.

Situated in rolling pasture 400m S of the River Erne. This E-facing chamber is 2m in overall length and narrows towards the back. Two portal- stones, 0.4m apart, each about 1.5m high, form the entrance. Single stones form each side and overlap the portal-stones. Both sidestones are about 1.2m high. The inward-leaning backstone is 0.7m high. The roofstone is broken. There are some traces of a cairn around the W end of the chamber. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 132, No. 33) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Portal tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture and is significant as part of a broader tradition of passage tomb construction in the region.

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