What is recorded here

Half a drumlin ridge in Leitrim still holds the north wall of a five-metre chamber, its western face marked by two stones barely taller than a child. Corcoran dug there in 1964 and recovered little more than a potsherd, loose flint and the ghost of a buried cairn, yet the chamber leans into the southern slope as if aimed at the coming sun. A court tomb waits twenty metres east, completing a small funeral landscape where ordinary pasture conceals several generations of stone work.

Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin in pasture. Only the N side of a single chamber survives (dims 5m NE-SW) with two façade-stones at W (max. H 1.15m). It was excavated by J. X. W. P. Corcoran (1964, 194-8), who found traces of a cairn, one sherd of pottery (possibly Beaker), and undiagnostic flint and chert. A court tomb (LE018-006----) lies c. 20m to the ENE, and a possible standing stone (LE018-008---) is c. 50m to E. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 69) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BC). Its partial survival and excavation by J. X. W. P. Corcoran provide insights into megalithic funerary practices in the region.

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