What is recorded here

No visible chamber is present at Tawnamachugh; the ground itself is the chamber. The upland karst, gentle slope and hidden depth suggest a entrance that disappeared rather than a tomb that was never built. What is missing is not an error, but the shape of the place: a threshold that stops resisting human memory and shows itself through what it withholds.

On an upland karst landscape that slopes down gently to the SE. A long cairn (dims 65m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE at SW to 14m at NE; max. H 2m) has a single megalithic chamber (dims c. 1.6m x c. 1.5m) with a large roofstone (dims 2.15m x 1.9m) supported on one portal stone at the NE end. There are two side-stones from a possible subsidiary chamber (L 1.4m; Wth 1m) at the SW end of the cairn. See the attached aerial view from SW 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

Portal tomb; Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic tomb construction associated with communal burial practices and ritual activity in upland landscapes.

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