What is recorded here

Labbyfirmore is a grass-covered cairn on a Monaghan drumlin, its northern edge split open to reveal a stone cist beneath a heavy roof slab. The structure sits immediately outside a rath, suggesting the dead remained visible to the living rather than hidden from them. Someone placed those stones across an open gap, perhaps marking a boundary between the village and the unknown.

Located on top of a drumlin and immediately outside the fosse of rath (MO024-036----) at SW. A grass-covered subrectangular cairn (dims 15.7m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW; H 0.85-1m) is truncated by the bank of rath (MO024-036----) at E and by a N-S field bank at W. A large cist protrudes from the cairn at N. The cist (dims 1.5m N-S; 0.5m E-W; H 0.4m) has long side-stones at E (dims 1.55m x 0.2m; H 0.4m) and W (dims 1.15m; x 0.2m; H 0.4m) and an end-stone at S but it is open at N. It is covered by a large roof-stone (dims 1.3m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE; T 0.45-0.5m). 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

A subrectangular cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, associated with a nearby rath; its location on a drumlin suggests a possible funerary or ritual function in a prehistoric landscape.

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