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CHAMBERED TOMB in Ballyedmond

CHAMBERED TOMB

What is recorded here

Ballyedmond holds a Neolithic chambered tomb where ancient people placed the dead inside stones built before written history. The chamber still belongs to the living landscape, waiting for human hands to imagine the weight of the last bodies it swallowed.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CHAMBERED TOMB. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Neolithic chambered tomb; dates to the prehistoric period. Its construction reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic architecture in the region.

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