What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the last human voice, two stone chambers still touch back-to-back inside a living field bank. One tomb opens northeast, the other southwest, and both have lost enough structure to become a guess about the people who shaped them. The larger gallery narrows into darkness, divided by jambs into two smaller rooms, while its neighbour keeps only a few stones and the shadow of a shared end wall. Around them lies an eight-metre circle of broken cairn, old enough to have watched every border, farm and forgetting pass above it.

Situated towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. This is the remains of a back-to-back dual court-tomb, orientated approximately NE-SW, which is incorporated in a field bank. A single court stone and an entry jamb of the NE tomb survive. The gallery (L 5.5m; Wth 1.6m), narrowing towards the rear, is divided into two chambers by two jamb -stones. Two jamb-stones, a single side-stone, and the adjoining shared back stone are all that survive of the SW gallery. There are indeterminate remains of a cairn (diam. 8m). (de Valera 1960, 123) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

Neolithic dual court-tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. Its back-to-back design and incorporation into a field bank highlight its significance as a rare and complex example of early megalithic funerary architecture in the region.

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