Megalithic structure

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a W-facing slope of a shelf at the head of an ESE-WNW valley. Fragments of unburnt human bone from what was described as a recently destroyed megalithic tomb were acquired by NMI in 1961 (Lucas 1963a, 124). The tomb had been situated in rock outcrop and was described as two parallel stones with a third on top. One of the stones (dims 1.5m x 0.6m; T 0.25m) survived. The human remains were at a depth of 1.2m and lay on a flat stone in three discrete accumulations. No remains of the structure are now visible, but the location is known locally. (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 511, 7.182)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 March, 2012

References

Lucas, A.T. 1963 National Museum of Ireland: Archaeological acquisitions in the year 1961. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 93, 115-33.

Sikora, M. and Cahill, M. 2011 Inventory of uninvestigated reports of human remains. In M. Cahill and M. Sikora (eds.), Breaking ground, finding graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, vol. 2, 447-526.