What is recorded here

Two ruined galleries still face each other across a narrow gap on Tory Hill, their broken chambers waiting for the court that once surrounded them. The site keeps its shape in shadow rather than pride, inviting imagination to complete what time has removed.

On the NE flank of Tory Hill on the W side of a shallow valley, within an overgrown triangular area (Wth 22m at SW) of uncultivated land. Consisting of two very ruined back-to-back galleries (L c. 15m), aligned NE - SW. Each gallery appears to have been divided into two chambers. The SW gallery is 5m long and its front portion is destroyed. The rear chamber is represented by a gable-shaped backstone, two sidestones and two opposing, inset jamb-stones. There is a single surviving N sidestone of the second chamber to the SW. Beyond this a field bank crosses the monument. The NE gallery (L 6m) is more disturbed but was of similar construction to the other. The rear chamber is represented by the backstone, a single N sidestone and two opposing, inset jambs-stones. Only two stones of the N side of the chamber to the NE survive. The outermost may be a longitudinally-set entrance jamb or portal. A distance of 1.7m separates the backstones of the galleries. Though no evidence of a court survives the general design is clearly indicative of the monument being the remains of a dual court tomb. (de Valéra and Ó Nualláin 1962, 117-23) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its dual gallery design and alignment reflect early communal burial practices and ritual significance in Irish prehistory.

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