Megalithic tomb - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

On a flat tract of ground, on the slopes below the S end of the Bricklieve Mountains with an outlook to the SE across Lough Key. A lone orthostat (L 1.2m; T 0.2m; H 0.75m), aligned SW-NE, stands at about the centre of an oval mound (L 22.5m NE-SW; max. Wth 16m; max. H 1.5m). Immediately to the S of the surviving orthostat there is a prostrate slab and just beyond this another measuring (max. dims. 1.1m and 2.2m respectively). Some 3m to the WSW of the orthostat three small stones, none more than 0.3m high, form a slightly curved line (L 2m). A fence runs NNW-SSE across the mound near its eastern edge. There is a small pit in the mound at the SE and another at the SW. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 77, no. 122)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)