PORTAL TOMB: SLIDDERYFORD DOLMEN in Wateresk — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Slidder yford dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb in Wateresk, County Down, where ancient people lifted heavy stone across a ford to build a chamber for the dead. The river may have carried life, memory and marrow into the same water, while the tomb stood as a fixed marker beside its motion.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PORTAL TOMB: SLIDDERYFORD DOLMEN. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Portal dolmen, Neolithic period. A Scheduled Ancient Monument, it represents an early form of megalithic tomb construction associated with communal burial practices in prehistoric Ireland.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.