What is recorded here

Fin McCool's Table is gone, its rocks burned into lime for a cliff-side kiln before the surveyors drew the name in gothic script on the 1834 map. What remains is a absence shaped like a banquet, the ground level and the table leg erased. Yet the killing of a tomb to make building material is not cowardice, but transformation: death itself became the substance of human making.

It is described in gothic lettering as ‘Fin McCool’s Table’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the OS Memoirs record that 'it is said that there once was a cromlech and the pieces of rock of which it was composed were not long since destroyed for the purposes of being converted into lime in the kiln at the side of the cliff’ (RIA Box 49, Magheross Parish, p. 22a). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level. 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

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its association with Fin McCool in local tradition highlights its role in both prehistoric funerary practice and later folklore.

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