What is recorded here
Mammary rocks and quiet fields still hide the dead beneath Magheramully. Bronze Age hands built a small chamber for someone no longer named. The chamber may have held a child, a leader, or a stranger whose life ended before writing existed. The location has been lost, but the act of burial remains. Someone watched that person leave the world of the living and chose a place worthy of remembering them.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CIST BURIAL (unlocated). Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age cist burial; likely dates to the earlier part of the Bronze Age in Ireland (c. 2500–1500 BCE). Cist burials are small stone chambers used for inhumation and are significant for understanding burial practices and social structures during the prehistoric period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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