What is recorded here
Mortons and the official map agree that possibility, not certainty, belongs inside the circle. The chamber may have held a body, the barrow may have marked a boundary, and the standing stone may have pointed toward water, sky or memory. Its removal did not erase those functions; it transferred them into imagination. People can still place the missing stone in thought and watch the chamber complete itself.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as POSSIBLE BARROW WITH CIST & STANDING STONE (stone removed). Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; BRONZE AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Possible Bronze Age barrow with cist and former standing stone, now removed. Such monuments are significant for understanding burial practices and ritual landscapes of early prehistoric communities in Northern 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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