Location - The Black Castle; Annaghmare; Creggan; Newry and Mourne

Description
A well preserved court tomb excavated 1963-4. The enclosing cairn is trapezoidal in plan, 20m long, 11.75m wide south, narrowing to 6.5m across north. The sides are defined by a revetment of orthostats with dry-stone walling in between. The horseshoe forecourt is defined by a facade of orthostats. 2 portal stones mark the entrance to the gallery 7m long & divided into 3 chambers by pairs of jamb stones. Shards of Late Neolithic pottery, flint tools & cremated human bone were found.

Location - Cailleach Bearas House; South Cairn; Slieve Gullion; Forkill; Newry and Mourne

Description
A round cairn c.100ft diam & originally c.16ft high. It contains a passage grave of dry-stone walling with a lintelled roof to the passage & a corbelled roof to the chamber. The chamber is octagonal, with a small end chamber set in the wall opposite the passage. The outer edge of the cairn was bounded by a kerb. A gap of 9ft seems to have contained a 'porch', now destroyed. Finds from the passage & chamber included cremated bone, flint & chert flakes & a barbed & tanged arrowhead.

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Location - Cross; Culfeitrin; Moyle.

Description
Situated on plateau overlooking Rathlin Island to the north. Grassed round cairn 15.5m diam. contains a central chamber of 5 basalt slabs approached by short north facing passage. A slab within the chamber and another lying outside may be displaced roofstones. Eight stones protruding through the grass are almost certainly an arc of a peristalith, c 10.0m diam., the remainder of which are still buried.

Further Information
EHS-Built Heritage
Monuments and Buildings Record
5-33 Hill Street
Belfast BT1 2LA
Tel : 028 9054 3004
Fax :028 9054 3111
e-mail: mbr@doeni.gov.uk

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