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This monument was excavated in 1934 by E. E. Evans (CLAJ 1935, 234-55). It comprises an oval cairn (LH004-032001-), 17.5m long by 11m wide, orientated NNE-SSW, incorporating a portal-tomb to the E and six Bronze Age cists to the W. The tomb, facing N, is represented by portal stones, each 2.7m high, and a back stone standing 2m to the S. The chamber area contained four pockets of cremated bone with some Neolithic and Bronze Age pot sherds and a blue glass bead. The cists (LH004-032002-, LH004-032004-, LH004-032005-, LH004-032006-, LH004-032007-, LH004-032008-) yielded cremations and food vessels. Evidence of iron-smelting was recovered from a furnace area (LH004-032003-) immediately N of the cairn (PRIA (C) 1982, 320-1, fig. 36).
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 36/1934) and is also a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 326
The above 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: 17 July 2007
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