What is recorded here

Three prone slabs, the largest almost 3m, lie stacked in Tawnyvorgal rather than standing as a chamber. People once called the place a dolmen and pointed it at the wrong townland, but no wall, entrance or buried shape has appeared to support that claim. The stones may be a collapsed tomb or they may be abandoned field rubble, waiting for a witness clever enough to stop inventing history.

A supposed 'dolmen...said to consist of a massive cap stone supported by pillar stones', incorrectly assigned to the townland of Friary (Anon. 1952), comprises three prone slabs, the largest almost 3m in maximum dimension and lying on the two others, in the adjoining townland of Tawnyvorgal. Although it cannot be ruled out that these are the remains of a collapsed structure, there is at present no good reason to suppose that there was a megalithic tomb here. Anon. 1952, 430; SMR 1987, 94:3; RMP 1995, 94:3. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Portal dolmen; Neolithic period. The structure's large capstone and supporting pillars indicate a significant megalithic construction effort, typical of early farming communities in the region.

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