What is recorded here

Kiltiernan Domain holds a massive six-metre capstone sloping sharply toward the earth, creating a long rectangular chamber that opens westward across rock-strewn pasture. Marcus Ó hEochaidhe briefly excavated the site and recovered chert tools diagnostic of the Early Neolithic period, proving people shaped this stone long before written memory. The chamber remains under national guardianship, preserving a quiet doorway where ancient hands may have placed the dead beneath a sky they could still see through the western gap.

This portal tomb is located on a SW-facing slope in rock-strewn pasture. In recent years there has been considerable land clearance in its immediate environs. Two portal-stones, which are angled forwards to the W, and a blocking stone form the entrance to a long rectangular chamber (L 4.5m; Wth 2.6m; H 1.25m). The capstone is massive (L 6.5m; Wth 5.3m; D 1.55m) thickest at the leading edge and sloping sharply to a ground-fast rear stone at E. The chamber, which opens to the W was briefly excavated by Marcus Ó hEochaidhe, who found a chert arrowhead, three hollow scrapers and an end scraper - all tools diagnostic of the Early Neolithic period (Corlett 2012; Herity 1964, 134-9; O'Neill 1852 42; Ó Nualláin 1983, 82, 96; Turner 1983, 6;). This monument was subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 47/1936) and was subsequently taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (National Monument 343). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 15 January 2017

Portal tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture and is significant as a rare surviving example of prehistoric monument-building in the region.

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