What is recorded here
Mammoth boars, mountain high, watch the tomb where ancient hands laid their dead beneath stone doors. Men and women lived beside that ridge, loved, argued, buried their own, and forgot the names of everyone they honored. Forgetting is not cruelty; it is the shape of time. The chamber still holds its dead, patient under grass, waiting for nobody and everyone at once.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PORTAL TOMB OR CIST BURIAL. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; NEOLITHIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Portal tomb; Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture significant in the prehistoric ritual landscape of Ireland.
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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