What is recorded here

Dolmen stands behind a field boundary at the foot of Carrickgollogan in County Dublin, its large capstone tilting south above a rectangular chamber built from four granite slabs. The tomb faces northeast toward Sugarloaf Mountain, inviting a dead person to watch the sky change while the living world moves past in grass and rain. Its size and shape suggest pride, care and certainty about the future, even though no name remains to tell whether that confidence belonged to a farmer, a leader or a forgotten child.

This impressive tomb is located behind a field boundary in pasture at the foot of Carrickgollogan with views onto Sugarloaf Mountain. It comprises a rectangular chamber (int L 3.6m; Wth 1.4m; max. H 1.5m) which faces NE and is formed by four regular granite slabs set on their narrow axis. A large capstone (L 2.3m) covers the NE end of the chamber. It tilts towards the S as it is resting on the two larger front slabs, which vary in height. A tree stump blocks the rear of the chamber. (Borlase 1897, 2, 392; Healy 1975, 1-19; Turner 1983, 10). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). It represents an early form of megalithic tomb construction and is significant as a rare surviving example of this type in the region.

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