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Cloghabracka

Court tomb

What is recorded here

Cloghabracka is a court tomb in County Mayo, Ireland, where ancient people shaped stone into a deliberate chamber before written history existed. The structure still stands as a witness to ceremonies, burial or memory, while human life has turned to soil around it. Its preservation suggests the community valued the dead enough to build something large enough for others to see and remember.
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: 2 January 2012

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