Audleystown Court Cairn

Court tombs typically have a single courtyard and one gallery of compartmentalized burial areas, usually located at the wide end of the cairn. In a dual-court tomb a court and a gallery are placed at each end of the cairn, as at Audleystown and Cohaw.

The survey determined that the tomb has a double open courtyard, two burial chambers and a trapezoid shaped cairn. The monument is orientated northeast–southwest, with the wider end facing southwest. It is faced with a drystone wall of standing shale stones, which were originally covered by shale and earth. Each open court is connected to a gallery with equal-sized burial chambers.

In 1952, as part of the Archaeological Survey of Northern Ireland, A.E.P. ('Pat') Collins conducted the first excavation of the tomb and published his findings in 1954. Further excavations supervised by Collins were conducted from October, 1956 to May, 1957.

The remains of 34 people were found in the burial chambers. They were a combination of cremated, partially-burnt and unburnt bones, and two thirds of the bones were unburnt and defleshed, which is unusual. The remains were primarily of women and children and were of disarticulated bones, together with some animal bones. Pottery sherds and worked flint were also found. The pottery included pieces of at least three bowls made with a smooth, corky fabric and a few pieces of Carrowkeel ware.