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Clochbrack

Portal tomb

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Clochbrack is a portal tomb in County Mayo, Ireland, where huge stones still lean against each other like the ribs of a forgotten chamber. It belongs to the deep Neolithic past, old enough that the people who built it left no names behind, only the shape of their labour. The tomb may have marked a burial, a boundary or a sacred meeting place, and that uncertainty makes it more alive than a finished explanation would.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of megalithic funerary practices in western Ireland.

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