What is recorded here

Thirty-nine metres of packed stone stretch across a shallow basin, guarding three chambers and six smaller wedge-shaped rooms beneath a broad plateau. People carried heavy rocks from somewhere, fitted them without mortar, and buried their dead inside a structure large enough to swallow a house. The cliff edge looms forty metres away, waiting for rain or memory to reveal what the living forgot.

Located in a shallow basin on a broad plateau with a cliff edge (H c. 3m) c. 40m to the NW. An oval cairn (dims 39m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE; max. H 1.75m) contains a three chambered gallery (L c. 6.75m; Wth 2m) entered from the NE-facing court (dims 8m NE-SW; max. Wth c. 5m NW-SE). Six single wedge-shaped subsidiary chambers (max. dims 3.5m x 2m) are contained in the cairn SW of the main gallery. A court tomb (LE011-038002-) is situated c. 10m to the SW. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 62-4) 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Three-chambered passage tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic period; its layout and location suggest it was part of a broader funerary and ritual landscape, common in Atlantic Europe during the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE.

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