County: Sligo Site name: GLEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Stefan Bergh, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Site type: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 563559m, N 827506m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.195197, -8.558423
The site is situated at the very top of the pointed mountain of Croaghaun, south of Ballysadare Bay. The chamber consists of five slabs (originally six), which form a rectangle without any marked passage. The chamber measures circa 2m x 1m and the entrance is to the SE. The site has been disturbed in recent times and no primary deposits were found in the chamber as such. Between two of the orthostats and partly below them a single cremation-deposit was uncovered. Its location indicates a date contemporary with the erection of the chamber. Besides cremated bone, the deposits contained fragments of coarse pottery and a head-piece of a 'puppy-shaped' antler/bone pin. The chamber was placed in a low cairn, circa 60cm high, with a diameter of 8m maximum. Several small deposits of cremated bone were found in the cairn, and one of these contained Food-Vessel sherds. Seven samples of charcoal from different deposits will be dated by C14 and the final report with the C14 dates will be published during 1986.
