What is recorded here

Nine upright slabs still hold the northwest edge of a wedge-shaped grave on a gentle western slope in County Leitrim, while four surviving stones mark the southeast boundary. The chamber stretches nine metres through scrub, widening from four and a half to nine and a half metres, with a large kerbstone blocking its southwest end. Fallen slabs as long as two metres suggest lintels once spanned the space, and the shape fits a Bronze Age wedge tomb rather than a common burial field. People may have laid the dead inside, walked past it on the nearby road, and forgotten its name until surveyors drew it as a Grave Yard.

Situated on a gentle W-facing slope and just S of an E-W road. It is depicted only on the 1907 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Grave Yard’. This is a scrub-covered, wedge-shaped area (dims 9m NE-SW; 4.5m NW-SE at NE to 9.5m at SW) defined by a line (L 6.7m) of nine contiguous upright slabs (H 0.3-0.8m) at the NW edge and seven on the SE side, but only four on the SE side remain standing. Some of the fallen stones are larger (L 1.3m; 2m) and might have been lintels. No internal structural stones are visible but one large kerbstone (L 2.55m x 0.35-0.5m; H 0.7m) is at the SW end. It is very likely to be a wedge tomb. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

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