What is recorded here

Abbeyderg holds a long, buried chamber on a low ridge, hidden beneath hazel and thorn. Three eastern stones mark the entrance to a gallery divided into an antechamber and two main rooms, each walled by massive stones. The overgrowth suggests the tomb has resisted discovery for centuries, preserving a place where ancient people may have laid their dead beneath open sky.

On a low ridge. This tomb is very overgrown with hazel and thorn bushes. Three stones of the E arm of a N-facing court stand 2m forward of a gallery (L c. 6.5m) divided into an antechamber and two main chambers. The entrance to the gallery is between a set of tall, doubled jambs forming the antechamber. The antechamber leads to the first of the two main chambers, each side of which is formed by a single stone. A pair of jambs separates it from the longer, second chamber, open at the rear, its sides each of two stones. A displaced stone leans against the inner face of the southernmost sidestone on the E side of this chamber. The structure stands in a long cairn, the precise outline of which is obscured by the overgrowth. (Higgins 1978, 270-71) Compiled by: Eamon Cody Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See linked document with a plan of the monument.

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). This tomb is significant as part of a distinctive megalithic tradition in Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and ritual landscape use.

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