What is recorded here

Thirty metres of angled stone stretch across County Louth, forming a broad chamber where fourteen upright slabs still mark the edge of a forgotten court. People may have carried dead through that opening or gathered there to watch storms roll over the flat land. The tomb has lost its name and most of its shape, but the stones remain arranged like a sentence half-erased, waiting for someone to remember what they said.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 This court-tomb is incorporated in a roughly trapezoidal cairn some 30m long and 20m wide at the WSW, narrowing to 7.1m wide at the ESE. There is a well-defined court at the W leading to the gallery area which is covered by cairn material. The court, 7.5m wide and 6m deep, embraces almost three-quarters of a circle and is represented by 14 orthostats, 7 at either side. Two large slabs lie at the inner end of the court. A single façade stone stands beyond the N arm of the court. Two kerb stones are exposed at the E end of the cairn and a field wall runs along its southern side. (PRIA (C) 1960, 128-9)

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period; it represents an early form of megalithic monument associated with burial and ritual practices in Ireland.

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