Located about 2 kilometres northeast of the village and northwest of where the River Finn bends towards Lough Foyle, this ancient monument occupied a spot with commanding views of Croaghan Hill to the northeast, whilst Crossy Hill blocked the horizon to the east-southeast. Another passage tomb, since destroyed, once stood just 400 metres away in the same townland of Gortfad, suggesting this area held particular significance for Ireland’s prehistoric inhabitants.

The tomb consisted of two massive upright stones set within a low, roughly circular mound of field stones measuring about 5 metres by 3.5 metres. The southern stone, serving as the backstone, stood 1.3 metres above the mound’s base and featured a slight peak near its eastern end, with a flat inner face and sloping outer surface. Its companion, the eastern portal stone, rose even higher at 1.7 metres on its northern half, though its southern portion sloped to about half that height. These two megaliths, positioned 1.4 metres apart, formed the entrance to a small chamber that opened towards the north-northeast. When antiquarian Thomas Fagan visited in 1846, he recorded it as “the ruins of a giant’s grave” and noted that locals remembered additional stones, both standing and fallen, that had been removed from the site within living memory.

Tragically, this monument that had endured since the Neolithic period met its end between 1984 and 1991, when it was demolished and the site levelled, likely for agricultural purposes. When archaeologists returned in September 1991, they found the two ancient portal stones unceremoniously dumped against a field fence about 40 metres southeast of their original position; silent witnesses to millennia of history, reduced to obstacles in a farmer’s field. The destruction of this tomb, documented in Eamon Cody’s Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, represents not just the loss of ancient stones, but the erasure of a tangible link to Ireland’s distant past and the people who once gathered here to honour their dead.