County: Derry Site name: KNOCKONEILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: L.N.W. Flanagan, UM
Site type: Megalithic tombs - court tombs
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 681934m, N 908688m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.919199, -6.721962
The second season of excavation of this two-chambered court tomb concentrated on the forecourt, where a beaker-like vessel was found, the removal and re-erection of a fallen lintel in the second chamber, a Neolithic pot surviving in deposits below it, and tracing the kerb of the Bronze Age cairn. Another Bronze Age pot was found in association with a cist built into the back of the cairn, presumably at the time that the kerb was added.
