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Located on a rise in the middle of a plateau bounded by the Goulaun River on one side and by the steep slope of Letterkeen Hill on the other, in an area of mountainous and boggy terrain.
This burial cairn was excavated (E000015) in 1950 by Ó 'Ríordáin and Mac Dermott (1950-51). The excavators interpreted a stony rise or mound, which appeared to be partly natural and partly artificial, as a possible Bronze Age burial mound or cairn (ibid, 91). Three cists (MA046-004002-; MA046-004003-; MA046-004004-) and two pit burial (MA046-004005-; MA046-004006-) were found, and the stony material of the possible cairn directly overlay one (MA046-004003-) of them. At a later period, a rath (MA046-004007-) was built on this location.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 April 2019
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