What is recorded here

Wardhouse holds a rectangular chamber barely one metre long, squeezed into an ENE-WSW field wall where undulating grassland rolls past. Two small portal stones, a south-facing sillstone and a leaning backstone build a doorway so narrow it may have admitted one crouching person at a time. The tomb does not tower or demand awe; it waits inside an ordinary boundary, as if death itself had to share the land with living fields.

Built into an ENE-WSW field wall in undulating grassland. A rectangular chamber (dims c. 1m x c. 0.5m) is defined by two small portal stones (max. H 1.15m) and a sillstone facing S, together with a backstone which is leaning S into the chamber. (Holly 1976, 128-9) 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, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its construction reflects early megalithic traditions in the region, with the chamber and portal stones indicating a ceremonial or funerary function.

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