What is recorded here

Clear the chamber and mark the edge. The tomb is not a display; it is a boundary marker for the valley mouth. The completed chamber may have stood where the fallen stones still point. The valley, the chamber and the chamber's edge must remain visible together.

On the E side and near the mouth of the narrow river valley that runs between the two hills N of Owning. Comprising a ruined chamber facing SSE represented by a broken W portal, a door-stone, the W sidestone and a leaning-in backstone. The E portal is prostate and the adjoining E sidestone is displaced. The roofstone (L 2.9m; Wth 2.5m; T 0.5m), has been dislodged to the W and its upper end rests on the backstone and W sidestone. A large slab beside the tomb to the S may be the broken upper portion of the W portal. Fogarty records that the monument was intact until c. 1825-30 and that the roofstone 'rested level on 7 large flags' (c. 1850, 21, 54). (Fogarty c. 1850, 21, 54; Borlase 1897, vol. 2, 408, Iverk no. 3; Powell 1941, 22, no. 25; Ó Nualláin 1983, 97, no. 3) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Portal dolmen; Neolithic period. The structure's orientation and surviving portal stones indicate a typical megalithic tomb design found in Atlantic Europe, reflecting early communal burial practices.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.