What is recorded here

One chamber held a dead person, a necked vessel, a small toggle and a bone pin. That is all the evidence still gives. The wide mound above may have marked the place for decades before people stopped returning.

National Monument No. 566. This record relates to the Neolithic phase of activity at this site which comprised the erection of a large sod mound covering a polygonal cist constructed on ground surface in a cairn (diam. c. 20m). The cist contained an inhumation accompanied by necked vessel, a small perforated toggle-like object and a bone pin. The mound was the subject of a further phase of activity during the earlier Bronze Age (CW008-031001-). An aerial photograph taken in 1989 shows a previously-unrecorded fosse-like feature (CW008-031003-) surrounding the mound (pers. comm. G. Barrett; SMR file). It is possible that this fosse may date to this or the earlier Neolithic phase of activity at this site. (Raftery 1974; Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, 3, no. 12; 5, No. 24) Revised by: Paul Walsh The attached image is copyright and uploaded courtesy of Dr. Gillian Barrett. Date of upload: 12 March 2013

Neolithic tumulus, dating to the early farming period in Ireland. Its significance lies in the combination of a polygonal cist within a cairn and later sod mound, reflecting evolving burial practices and monument construction techniques of the time.

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