Cloughbrack - Ossian's Grave - Co Antrim, Northern Ireland (Historic Monuments)
This small court tomb is in Lubitavish Town on the northern slopes of Glenaan at 450 ft (137 metres). From the site on a clear day there are fine views to the coast and to Scotland. The tomb has been romantically called 'Ossian's Grave' after the Early Christian period warrior-poet who, according to local legend, was buried here (though it is at least 2000 years earlier than this day).
The remains of the grave built of small stones, are set in a low cairn, originally oval in outline but now mutilated. Two kerb-stones survive on the north side to show the cairn's original extent. The semi-circular forecourt faces south-east, leading between a pair of portal stones to a two chambered burial gallery. originally covered over with stone lintels. Ossian's Grave has not been excavated.
Court tombs are found mainly in the northern third of Ireland. they were built by early farming groups in the Neolithic period, 4000 to 5000 years ago. They were used for multiple burials and the burials were normally accompanied by plain and decorated pottery bowl, flint arrowheads, javelin-heads and scrapers. At least eighteen court tombs are known in Co Antrim, of which two, at Ballymacaldrack near Dunloy (Dooey's Cairn) and Craigs (the Broad Stone) are also in State care.