PORTAL TOMB: TIRNONY DOLMEN in Tirnony — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Tirnony Dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb in County Derry where huge stones still lean against the sky like a door waiting for someone tall enough to enter. It belongs to the deep prehistoric past, long before written records, when people shaped stone into chambers for the dead or the sacred. The tomb stands in State Care, marked on the official map at the centre of its archaeological site, preserving a place where human hands first made the earth into a chamber for what comes after life.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PORTAL TOMB: TIRNONY DOLMEN. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: State Care. 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 megalithic funerary tradition significant for understanding prehistoric burial practices in the region.

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