What is recorded here
Mairi and the children stood beside the long cist in Ballymarter, where an old burial lay hidden beneath the grass. She remembered the shape of the stones through her hands, though no marker remained for others to read. The dead had not been forgotten; they had simply stopped answering the living.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BURIAL in LONG CIST (unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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